Pinkerton's, Inc. v. Palmer, Inc.

Felton, Chief Judge.

The appeal is from the judgment entered in a distress warrant proceeding based upon the direction of a verdict in favor of the plaintiff lessor, Palmer, Inc., against the lessee, Pinkerton’s, Inc. The evidence showed that the lessee leased the premises, office space in an office building in Atlanta, for a term of five years, beginning on the 1st day of September, 1960, and ending on the 31st day of August, 1965; that during the last of March, 1965, five months before the expiration of the lease, the tenant vacated the premises and so notified the lessor. The lessor took…