(DOWNLOAD) "Singer Company v. Makad" by Supreme Court of Kansas * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Singer Company v. Makad
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 26, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This action is brought under the declaratory judgment statute, K.S.A. 60-1701. It was initiated by The Singer Company, hereafter referred to as Singer or plaintiff, which, as lessee, executed lease agreements for space in two shopping centers, one at North Platte, Nebraska, and the other at Hays, Kansas, under dates of October 17, 1967, and November 22, 1967, respectively. The original lessors were Harry M. and Kathleen Mary Ellen Daum who subsequently, and sometime in April, 1969, assigned their interest in the lease agreements to Daum Industries, Inc., which in turn, and on November 1, 1970, assigned the leases to Makad, Inc., a company in which the Daums held a one-half interest. We shall refer to the present lessor as Makad, to its predecessors in title as the Daums and to them collectively as defendants. Two bases for relief are advanced by Singer: First, that the leases were void as violating the rule against perpetuities; second, and in the alternative, that Makad and the Daums, its assignors, unreasonably delayed the construction and opening of the two shopping centers. The trial court held that the lease agreements violated the rule against perpetuities and, accordingly, entered judgment in favor of Singer. This appeal followed.