Mark Steel Corporation v. Eimco Corporation

MAUGHAN, Justice:

On appeal is a judgment of the district court denying recovery to a lessor for the cost of increased insurance premiums, which the lessor claimed was the result of the use to which the lessee put the leased premises. We affirm the judgment.

Prior to April 1967, defendant operated a plastics manufacturing business in a portion of the subject premises, then owned and leased by one Horman. At that time defendant was informed by the lessor that additional space would shortly be available. Defendant expressed a desire to establish a fiberglass manufacturing business on the…