Case Name: WHEELER v. NIMS, et al
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1922-05
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 107
Docket Number: No. 971
Parties: WHEELER v. NIMS, et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 107–107

Head Matter:
No. 85
WHEELER v. NIMS, et al
Franklin County Court of Appeals
No. 971,
May, 1922
For full opinion see Columbus Daily Law Reporter, Aug. 28, 1922.
LEASES — (1) Validating a defective lease by recital in a subsequent lease — (2) Relief afforded by a court of chancery.
Attorneys — Henry A. Williams, for Wheeler; Thomas M. Bigger and S. A. Sharp, for Nims; and Oscar W. Newman, and Hedges, Hoover & Tingley, for the Kibler Co.

Opinion:
ALLREAD, J.
Epitomized Case
Defendant Nims was the holder of a duly executed 99-year lease of Columbus property and the Kibler Co., a defendant, held a duly recorded prior 10-year defectively executed lease of part of the same premises of which Nims had actual notice at the time he negotiated for and obtained his lease. There was a recital in the 99-year lease, referring to the Kibler lease. The Appellate Court held:
1. The affirmation and recognition of the defective lease of the Kibler Co. by the lessee in the 99-year lease had the effect of validating it and estopping both parties from denying its validity.
2. The lessor was under a moral obligation to protect the Kibler lease in any subsequent conveyance, and this obligation to protect and make good the lease is recognized as such in a court of equity- This they attempted to do by inserting a validating recital in the 99-year lease, and a court of chancery should recognize the validity of the prior defective lease and afford as full relief against the 99-year lease as it would originally have exercised against the lessors.
Decree in favor of the Kibler Company.