Court Opinion

ID: 9571761
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:34:56.546314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:30:55.300627
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SACKETT, Judge
(special concurrence).
I concur with the majority opinion. I write because the majority opinion is contrary to this court’s holding in Kansas City Life Ins. Co. v. Hullinger, 459 N.W.2d 889, 893-94 (Iowa App.1990). In Kansas City, the farmland had been leased first to Snook, who then subleased to Hullinger. Snook was served with a notice to terminate his farm tenancy within the time frame required by Iowa Code section 562.6. Hullinger was not served with a notice. In Kansas City, 459 N.W.2d at 893-94, we affirmed the trial court decision that as a matter of law a subtenant was entitled to notice of the termination of a farm tenancy. I disagreed with this holding, Kansas City, 459 N.W.2d at 898-900, and still consider the holding to be an erroneous construction of the statute, and a decision that does not reasonably assign the risk to the person best able to provide for it. It also is a decision establishing uncertainty on terminating farm tenancies. For reasons set forth in my dissent, I feel that portion of Kansas City, 459 N.W.2d at 893-94, holding a sublease is entitled to a notice under section 562.6 should be overruled. Unless we do so, the majority holding in this case will be contrary to Kansas City.