Laiben v. Department of Revenue

RENDLEN, Judge.

This appeal, involving construction and validity of a real estate lease, turns on two questions: (1) whether the lease provided for an initial term of six or eighteen months; (2) if for eighteen months, whether the execution of a lease for a term of more than one year was beyond the constitutional powers of State agents to contract and thus void.

*174The trial court held that the lease provided for an initial term of only six months and that defendants, having given the prescribed notice to terminate, were authorized to vacate the premises without liability for further payment of…