Anderson v. Frye & Bruhn

Citations

• 69 Wash. 89
• 124 P. 499
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 851

Syllabus

<p>Frauds, Statute of—Lease—Agreement for Renewal—Validity. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, §8745, requiring all-conveyances of real estate to be by deed, and § 8746, requiring deeds to be acknowledged, and § 8802, providing that leases for any term not exceeding one year shall be valid without acknowledgment, an unacknowledged lease for one year with the privilege of renewal is void and unenforcible.</p> <p>Landlord and Tenant—Lease—Agreement for Renewal. A lease for one year with the privilege of two year’s renewal at a rental satisfactory to both lessor- and lessee, is a single contract, calling for renewal at a reasonable rental, and not subject to the objection that the agreement for renewal was without consideration or unenforcible.</p> <p>Landlord and Tenant—Lease—Termination. An unacknowledged lease for a term exceeding one year being void, except as a lease from month to month, may be terminated by proper notice before the expiration of the year.</p>