Statler v. Watson

Matilda E. Watson was the owner of a life estate in-the northwest quarter of Section 15, Township 23 North, Range 3 East of the 6th P. M., in Stanton County, Nebraska, and she was the owner of an undivided one-fourth thereof subject to her life estate therein. Tonie I. Statler, named appellee herein, was the owner of an undivided three-fourths of the described land subject to the life estate of her mother Matilda E. Watson.

Matilda E. Watson, hereinafter designated deceased, entered into a written lease with Ivo Kleinschmit, herein identified as appellant, by the terms of which the land was…