Turner v. Mendenhall

McQUADE, Justice.

In 1962 Jay Turner and June Turner, plaintiffs and appellants, leased 240 acres of farm land in Caribou County from LaVern Mendenhall and Vonda Mendenhall, then husband and wife. Although the initial term of the lease was five years, the lease’s renewal provision was used to extend the lease for an extra five years until December 31, 1972. Respondents obtained a Utah divorce which resulted in the wife, Vonda Mendenhall, receiving an undivided one-third of the 240 acres of Idaho farm land here in question, and the husband, LaVern Mendenhall, receiving an undivided two-thirds…