Finnin v. Balter

This is a suit for damages for breach of a contract of lease, and to have the lease annulled or rescinded. The suit was dismissed by the trial court on an exception of no cause of action.

It appears from the petition that plaintiff was, for some years prior to October, 1924, engaged in the restaurant business in the vicinity- of Commercial Place, in the city of New Orleans. During the greater part of 1924, he occupied, as the lessee of a stranger to this suit, the premises No. 632 Commercial Place. Prior to September, 1924, plaintiff’s lessor and defendant prevailed upon him to surrender his…