Wills Trusts & Estates keyed to Dukeminier
In re Gleeson
Facts
In 1950, Mary Gleeson leased 160 acres of farm land to the petitioner. In 1951, Gleeson renewed the lease with the petitioner for another year. Gleeson died just two weeks before the lease was to expire in 1952. Gleeson devised the land to the petitioner, as trustee, for the benefit of her three children. After Gleeson’s death, with the expiration of the second lease imminent, the petitioner remained on the land for another year until March 1, 1953. He increased his rent payments from $6 per acre to $10 per acre plus a share of the crops. He leased the land to another tenant after the holdover year. In the preceding fall of 1951, the petitioner sowed part of the 160 acres in wheat to be harvested in 1952. The petitioner held over in an open manner.
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