In Matter of Estate of Lade

The property in question is a farm in Fond du Lac county which was owned by Oscar F. Lade, an elderly man who died intestate on December 22,1973.

Elwyn Ketter, who owned a farm adjacent to Lade’s, was a good friend of the deceased. He had worked part of the Lade farm on a shares basis beginning in 1963, and in 1966 or 1967 became a renter under an oral lease. He was renting twenty-one and one-half acres of Lade’s farm at the time of Lade’s death.

When Lade died, Ketter filed a claim with the estate for various improvements and services rendered to Lade, for breach of the oral lease for 1974,…