Green v. Kroeger
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. The court erred in its charge that, under the clause in the lease requiring defendants to pay double rent for such time as they would hold over, they could terminate the relation of landlord and tenant on any day after the expiration of their lease, by paying double rent up to such day. 1 Wood on Landlord and Tenant [2 Ed.], pp. 37, 125; 1 Taylor on Landlord and Tenant [8 Ed.], 24, sec. 22; 2 R. S.…
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Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. The court erred in its charge that, under the clause in the lease requiring defendants to pay double rent for such time as they would hold over, they could terminate the relation of landlord and tenant on any day after the expiration of their lease, by paying double rent up to such day. 1 Wood on Landlord and Tenant [2 Ed.], pp. 37, 125; 1 Taylor on Landlord and Tenant [8 Ed.], 24, sec. 22; 2 R. S. 1889, 1501, sec. 6367; Clark on Contracts, p. 595; 2 Taylor’s Landlord and Tenant [8 Ed.], 119,121, sec. 524; Drey v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
Plaintiff leased to defendants a building in this city on the second day of December, 1889, for a term ending December 31, 1894, at a yearly rental of $1,200, payable monthly in advance. The lease contained a clause providing for a redelivery of the building, fire only excepted, in as good order and condition as it could be maintained by reasonable use, and obligating the lessees, their heirs or assigns, “to pay the lessor double rent for all such time as they should hold over the.premises after expiration of the letting either by limitation or forfeiture.” The lessees by themselves and their…
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