Alkus v. Johnson-Pacific Co.

Appeal by plaintiffs on the judgment roll alone in an action for declaratory relief from a judgment decreeing that “defendant is not liable [to plaintiffs] under the terms or provisions of the lease between the parties hereto for the cost of utilities furnished to the United States Government.”

The case arises out of the following facts: Capital Company, a corporation, owned real property in Oakland upon which was a building, a portion of which it had leased to the United States Government, on a year to year basis, the lease to extend in no event further than six months after the date when the…