In re Gleeson's Will

Colbrook (defendant) leased farmland from Gleeson for a year, and she renewed the lease for a second year before dying two weeks before that second lease's expiration, at which point her will named Colbrook as trustee of the same farmland for the benefit of her children; when the second lease year expired, Colbrook, rather than immediately transitioning the land to a new tenant, held over as tenant for another full year himself before finally leasing to someone else, citing the practical difficulty of quickly finding a qualified replacement tenant so soon after Gleeson's death and mid-harvest timing concerns with wheat already planted on the land.