Bernard v. Crosby

Appellants are the owners of certain real property in the city of Seattle upon which is situated *258a building which was leased in the year 1914 by the then owner to the Western Wheel Scraper Company, the Marion Steam Shovel Company, and the American Hoist & Derrick Company, for a period of five years. Soon after the execution of the lease, a mezzanine flooring or platform was constructed in the building and used by the two lessees first named, but the evidence is not clear as to which lessees paid for the improvement. At the expiration of the lease, the two lessees first named removed from the…