Wyandt v. Merrill

Citations

• 107 Kan. 661
• 193 P. 366
• 15 A.L.R. 654
• 1920 Kan. LEXIS 144

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. '</p> <p>1. Landlord and Tenant — Life Estate — Death of Landlord — Estate Not Entitled to Share of Immatured Crops. Except as the rule may be modified by statute, where one having thei title to a farm for his own life leases it for a share of a wheat crop delivered at market and dies after the crop is sown and before it has matured, his estate is not entitled to any part of the crop.</p> <p>2. Same — When Ownership of Landlord’s Share of Crop Bent Attaches— Common-law Bule. The common-law rule referred to in the foregoing paragraph is not abrogated by the statute which declares the lessee whose rent is payable in a share of the' matured crop to be the owner of such share, because such ownership does not attach until the maturity of the crop.</p>