Kansas Statutes Annotated
K.S.A. § 58-2502 (2026)
Tenants from year to year
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58-2502. Tenants from year to year. When premises are let for one or more years, and the tenant with the assent of the landlord continues to occupy the premises after the expiration of the term, such tenant shall be deemed to be a tenant from year to year.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 55, § 2; October 31; R.S. 1923, 67-502.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1972–2004 · leading case: Prince Enter., Inc. v. Griffith Oil Co., 664 P.2d 877 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983).
Prince Enter., Inc. v. Griffith Oil Co., 664 P.2d 877 (Kan. Ct. App. 1983). “The Court is not unmindful of the fact that K.S.A. 58-2502 would ordinarily cause the defendant to become a [tenant from] year to year.”
Thomas v. Dudrey, 494 P.2d 1039 (Kan. 1972). “) When a Kansas landowner desires to place his land in the Conservation Reserve Program and the land is being farmed by a tenant on the basis of a division of crops pursuant to a written or oral farm lease, or as here, where he is a "holdover" tenant with the consent of the…”
Buckle v. Caylor, 700 P.2d 979 (Kan. Ct. App. 1985). “When a tenant takes possession under a written lease, K.S.A. 58-2502 applies and it provides that when premises are leased for one or more years, and the tenant with the assent of the landlord continues to occupy the premises after the expiration of the term, the tenant becomes…”
Macray v. Clubs, Inc., 87 P.3d 989 (Kan. Ct. App. 2004). “Clubs argues that K.S.A. 58-2502 automatically creates a new year-to-year tenancy by operation of law because of its $1,800 payment to Macray.”
Concrete Accessories Co. v. Moses, 95 P.3d 648 (Kan. Ct. App. 2004). “Appellee filed a motion for partial summary judgment seeking a ruling that appellee properly exercised the option to purchase in the lease agreement and it was enforceable as a matter of law even if appellee was only a month-to-month tenant as asserted by appellants and/or was a…”
Schartz v. Foster, 805 P.2d 505 (Kan. Ct. App. 1991). “Foster relies upon K.S.A. 58-2502, which states that a tenant who holds over with landlord consent at the expiration of a one-year term becomes a tenant from year to year.”
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