Kollock v. Scribner
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Dane county: E. G. SiebeoKee, Circuit Judge. On the 1st day of April, 1886, Wiley S. Scribner leased to the plaintiff the premises described in the complaint, for the term of ten years from that day, “ with the privilege of a renewal.”
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Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Dane county: E. G. SiebeoKee, Circuit Judge. On the 1st day of April, 1886, Wiley S. Scribner leased to the plaintiff the premises described in the complaint, for the term of ten years from that day, “ with the privilege of a renewal.” Since that time, up to the commencement of this action, plaintiff occupied the premises under said lease, and performed all the conditions thereof on his part to be performed. , Subsequent to the making of the lease the lessor died and defendant Mary L‘. Scribner became the owner of the property by descent, under the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mx:rsha.ll, J.
Upon the appeal of the plaintiff we are first called upon to determine whether the agreement to renew the lease was void for -uncertainty. On that subject Laird v. Boyle, 2 Wis. 431, is cited by defendant Scribner, where the court said, in substance, that a general agreement for a renewal, no time or. terms being stated, is void for uncertainty. That appears to be a clear adjudication of the' question before us. It will not do to ignore it by saying it is mere obiter. True, there was another ground upon which the case was decided, whicíi was plain and decisive, but the decision…
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