Estabrook v. Stevenson

It appears that on May 1, 1884, Experience Estabrook leased to Samuel Stevenson certain real estate in the city of Omaha for the term of ten years, with the privilege reserved to the lessor of terminating the lease at the expiration of five years of the term; that by a provision of the lease the lessor, at the termination of the term, should pay the lessee for such improvements as had been made or placed on the real estate by the lessee during the life of the lease, the value of such improvements to be determined by arbitrators. The lessor gave notice of his election to terminate the lease at…