Southern Region Indus. Realty, Inc. v. Chattanooga Warehouse and Cold Storage Co., Inc.

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Defendant-lessee has appealed the trial court’s determinations that lessee did not exercise its option to renew a five-year lease and plaintiff-lessor is entitled to possession of the property, defendant being a tenant at will.

Lessor, a Georgia corporation, owns a large tract of land, improved by a warehousing facility, comprising the 1300 block of Market Street in Chattanooga; its principal office is in Washington but it maintains an office in Atlanta. Lessee is a Tennessee corporation engaged in a general warehousing business.

On May 22, 1974, the parties entered the…