Frankfurt Finance Co. v. Treadaway

YOUNG, Justice.

Appellant’s suit, as plaintiff in the trial court, was for special damages in the sum of $5,000, arising under a written lease, through failure of the tenant Treadaway to surrender possession after sale of realty, in alleged violation of the lease terms. Alternatively, recovery was sought for an unpaid amount of rent. Judgment was rendered for an aggregate of past-due rentals, but above claim for damages was denied, with resulting appeal. Plaintiff’s case turns, in the main, on a proper construction of the following instrument of lease, of date April 1, 1936:

“We the undersigned…