Pettett v. Cooper

The appellant, Carrie C. Cooper, defendant in the trial court, was the owner of a farm which she had leased to the apjpellee, L. J. Pettett, plaintiff below, for a term of one year from March 1, 1935, with the privilege of renewal for an additional year. The lease was in writing, bnt contained no provision imposing any conditions upon the right to renew or prescribing any method by which, or time in which, the intention to renew should be manifested.

More than three months before the expiration of the year and while the privilege of renewal still existed, the appellant, through her agents,…