Yates v. Farmer

Nichols, Judge.

The lease in question contained the following provision as to rent: “Which rent shall be payable by lessee to lessor by the 10th day of each month following the deliveries of motor fuel made for the preceding month. The rent for the first month shall be due and payable on or before July 10, 1958.” The lease was executed in June, 1958, and covered property to be used as a gasoline service station. The evidence was undisputed that the corporate lessee had paid the rent late all except three months between the time the lease was signed and the time, May 18, 1959, when the lessor…