Progressive Friendship Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Rose

In a suit by a landlord, the appellant, for unpaid rent, the trial court, sitting without a jury, found for the tenant, the appellee, on the ground that he had not agreed to pay as rent the amount on which the landlord based its claim.

The appellee, C. Bowie Rose, is a lawyer who for some time has practiced from an office in Glen Burnie. In 1956 he and a lay associate, John Lane, formed the Anne Arundel County Realty Company and, in its name, leased a building in Glen Burnie for ten years at a rental of $230.00 a month. The lessee made improvements and additions to the building costing about…