Laird v. Dixie Motor Coach Corp.

LOONEY, Justice.

Two adjoining one-story brick buildings, .about 50x100 ft. each, separated by an inner partition wall, located on the North side of Jackson Street, City of Dallas — one owned by E. G. Senter, Jr., the other jointly by A. S. Laird and the other plaintiffs in error — were under separate, but substantially similar leases to the Dixie Motor Coach Corporation (defendant in error) as a garage and motor bus depot. The premises — that is, the two buildings — were •so impaired by fire that the Coach Corporation refused to further occupy same, contending that the lease contracts…