Court Opinion

ID: 9934930
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:55:00.002045+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:49.817135
License: Public Domain

I concur specially to point out that I would find that the lease of the parties had sufficient certainty if the finding of the trial judge, namely, that the lease agreement dated January 10, 1979, for a term of one year for the sum of $300.00 per year, with an option to renew each year as long as the camp was run as a business for profit, but not to be valid for a term in excess of 20 years, in accordance with the provisions of §35-4-6, Code of Alabama 1975, had in fact been incorporated into the lease signed by the parties. The lease not having been so drafted, the trial judge is not permitted through the use of extrinsic evidence to rewrite the original agreement to give it certainty. Therefore, written leases which have provisions for renewal at the end of a certain time provided the business is being operated for profit, would certainly be viable.