Smith v. Coutant

Defendants occupied the farm under a written lease for one year commencing on March 1, 1941. They notified the plaintiff that they were entitled to occupy the farm for another year, commencing on March 1, 1942, because the plaintiff had failed to give written notice to them, on or before the first day of the preceding November, of the termination of the lease, as provided in section 10161, Code, 1939. This defense was alleged in the answer to plaintiff’s petition. Plaintiff, in her reply, admitted the execution by the parties of the one-year lease, which by its terms ended on February 28,…