Owen v. Pret' a Porter Boutique, Inc.

This appeal is from a judgment in the amount of $4760.88 and costs entered in favor of the owners of a shopping mall for rent due under the terms of an oral lease as found by the trial court.

Although the underlying facts are not in dispute, a reasonably complete summation is required in order to understand the circumstances and analyze the disputed oral lease.

On June 30, 1967, the defendant entered into a written one year lease to occupy space in the plaintiff’s covered shopping mall in Decatur, Illinois. This lease, which was to run from August 1, 1967, to July 31, 1968, provided for a base…