Penrod v. Lapere

TORBERT, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a suit to set aside a ninety-nine-year lease and to restrain the lessees from doing certain acts. On October 1, 1976, appellants Francis and Roberta Penrod, husband and wife, executed a written lease of one acre of real property to appellees Hazel Lapere and John Murray. The property is located in Brantley, Alabama. Mrs. Lapere is the sister of Francis Penrod. Several years before, Mr. Penrod told Mrs. Lapere that she could select one acre out of the ninety he owned to retire on.

Sometime in 1975, Mrs. Lapere, while residing in Pompano Beach, Florida,…