Keating v. Michael

(after stating the facts). Generally speaking it may be said that lease contracts upon real estate must be definite in their terms in order to bind the parties, and that a general covenant to renew a lease is ' sufficiently certain because it imports a new lease like the old one upon the same terms and conditions. Nakdimen v. Atkinson Imp. Co., 149 Ark. 448, and Felder v. Hall Bros. Co., 151 Ark. 182, 235 S. W. 789.

That rule, however, has no application under the facts of the present case. In the case last cited the ■court quoted with approval the definition of the word “renew,” in Cunningham…