Wilson v. Lee
Wilson v. Lee
Opinion of the Court
The defendant tenant appeals from the judgment of the Upson Superior Court sustaining the plaintiff landlord’s motion for summary judgment in a dispossessory proceeding brought under Code § 61-301.
The defendant tenant originally entered upon the property under a ten-year lease which expired on March 15,1973. The lease did not contain an option to renew or an automatic renewal clause. There is a provision in the lease stating that the defendant shall be a tenant at will if he remains in possession after expiration of the lease with the plaintiffs "acquiescence and without any distinct agreement of the parties.”
The uncontroverted evidence on motion for summary judgment shows that the plaintiff did not acquiesce in the defendant’s remaining on the property, but leased the property to another, gave the defendant specific notice thereof, and requested in writing the defendant’s removal. The defendant was a mere tenant at sufferance after the expiration of the lease, all before the lease between defendant and plaintiff expired. Stanley v. Stembridge, 140 Ga. 750, 755 (79 SE 842). He was not entitled to the notice allowed a tenant at will. Code § 61-105 (as amended, Ga. L. 1962, pp. 463, 464); Cooper v. Vaughan, 81 Ga. App. 330, 340 (58 SE2d 453) and cits.
In his affidavit in opposition to the motion for summary judgment, the defendant merely states legal conclusions, but offers no
Judgment affirmed.
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