Philbrook v. Mercantile Trust Co.

CAMPBELL, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of respondent and against appellant in the sum of #5,601.98.

On July 1, 1911, the Down Town Realty Company leased from Mary Prior and others a parcel of real property at the southwest corner of Mason and Eddy Streets in San Francisco. The lease covered a term of thirty years, commencing on April 1, 1912, and provided, among other things, for the immediate erection of a building upon the demised premises by the lessee at its own expense. In pursuance of this latter provision the Down Town Realty Company on July 25, 1911, entered…