Court Opinion

ID: 9731651
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:53:38.461663+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:02.929193
License: Public Domain

*94Carter, Wenke, and Boslaugh, JJ.,
concurring.
We concur with the opinion of the majority. We feel, however, that the reason for the holding that the lessee was not in privity with the owner of the life tenancy should have been set out in the opinion. The lessee of the property is in privity with the owner of the life estate to the same extent that any lessee is in privity with his lessor. This is in harmony with section 25-21,109, R. R. S. 1943, providing that where the owner defaults, an encumbrancer may appear and represent the owner. But as between the lessee and the owner of the life estate as such there is no privity. Consequently, a lessee may not assert the rights of the owner of the life tenancy which are peculiar to the life tenancy. The lessee therefore has no right by reason of privity to assert the right of the life tenant to object to partition, such right being one arising solely out of her status as owner of the life tenancy and not as lessor.