Kuhn v. Smith

Citations

• 125 Cal. 615
• 58 P. 204
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 914

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant—Lease fob Years—Duty of Tenant at Expiration of Term.—A tenant in possession under a lease for a fixed term, is a tenant for years, and is in duty bound, at the expiration of his term, to surrender possession without notice of any kind.</p> <p>Id.—Lease of Agricultural Land—Holding Over—Tenancy at Will—Notice to Quit—Ejectment.—The mere holding over by a tenant under a lease of agricultural lands, after the expiration of the term fixed therein, for a period of six weeks, without consent of the owner, though without previous demand for possession, does not constitute a tenancy at will, or entitle the tenant to any notice to cut off his rights, before the bringing of an action of ejectment against him by the owner.</p>