Arrington v. Loveless

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This is a suit to recover rentals allegedly due to the landowner from the tenant under a written lease agreement. The landowner, Curtis Loveless, was awarded a judgment in the trial court for unpaid rentals and the tenant, Fred Arrington, has appealed.

The trial was non-jury and no findings of fact and conclusions of law were filed by the trial court.

The defense alleged by defendant to plaintiff’s suit was: that the parties had mutually agreed to a surrender of the lease as of August 31, 1971, or, in the alternative, that the facts in the case are such as to have…