Stanfill v. Gibbs

GLADNEY, Judge.

This suit was instituted by several property owners to cancel a surface lease and to be restored to possession of ten acres of land situated in Natchitoches Parish. The written lease was executed “- day of September, 1940” by Mrs Mattie W. Booth, as lessor, and R. H. Brigman, lessee. It recites a cash consideration of Five Dollars per annum and declares that upon failure to pay the rental the lease shall automatically terminate. A claim for $600 for damages to improvements on the premises that accompanied plaintiffs’ demand for cancellation and possession was *566formally abandoned…