Cohn v. Rudneck

At the expiration of a written, lease of real estate made by plaintiff to defendants they refused to surrender possession and thereupon he brought this action for unlawful detainer.

Judgment went for plaintiff, from which defendants appeal.

The lease was for a term of five years at a rental of forty dollars per month for the first two years; forty-five dollars per month for the next two years, and fifty dollars per month for the last year. As alleged by defendants, the lease contained a provision that “at the end of the term, to-wit, December 31, 1918, . . . the defendants should have the…