Schmitz v. Sondag

SNELL, Judge.

Defendant-lessor appeals from declaratory judgment that a valid farm lease existed between defendant and plaintiff for the 1980 crop year, and that the lease continued for the 1981 crop year because defendant failed to give notice of termination of the lease as required by Iowa Code § 562.7 *363(1983). We reverse and remand for a new trial.

Plaintiff filed his petition for declaratory judgment on April 29, 1981. In it he alleged that defendant owns certain farmland that was leased to Norman Schmitz, plaintiff’s brother, from 1977 to 1979. Plaintiff and his brother farmed that land…