Utah Optical Co. v. Keith
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the 3rd District Court Salt Lake County, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by plaintiff for damages on account of having been unlawfully evicted by defendants from a certain store building in Salt Lake City. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the 3rd District Court Salt Lake County, Hon. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by plaintiff for damages on account of having been unlawfully evicted by defendants from a certain store building in Salt Lake City. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff defendants appeal. The alleged parol lease of plaintiff being for more than one year is void under the statute of Utah and no suit founded upon such a lease, or estate for two years, or any particular time exceeding one month, can be maintained. It was a mere tenancy at the will of Houston, or from month to month, even though one-half…
1Opinion of the CourtBaskin, J.
This is an action for the recovery of damages alleged to have been received by the plaintiff on account of having been unlawfully evicted by the defendants from a certain *467store building, situated on Main street, Salt Lake City, and designated as No. 230. On the trial the jury found for the plaintiff; judgment thereon was entered, and from this judgment defendants appeal. Among other things the complaint alleges that the plaintiff, at the time mentioned in said complaint, was and still is a corporation; that for the period of two years, commencing on the first day of March, 1895, and…
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