E. B. Jones Motor Co. v. Niedringhaus

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is a suit by E. B. Jones Motor Company against Pauline T. Niedringhaus et *33al., lessors, to recover the purchase price of certain personal property located upon the leased premises and the cost of improvements made in reliance on lessors’ title. Lessors counterclaimed for unpaid rent. The court directed a verdict for defendants-lessors both on plaintiff’s petition and on defendants’ counterclaim. From the ensuing judgment plaintiff appealed to this court.

The petition alleged that on September 2, 1952, the premises were leased to plaintiff’s predecessor; that rent was…