Central States Cooperatives, Inc. v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co.

on defendant’s alleged wilful withholding of possession of the premises after the expiration of a preexisting written lease. For this unlawful withholding of possession plaintiff seeks to recover double the reasonable rental value of said premises, which it alleges to be $1,868 per month. Defendant replies by proper allegations that it lawfully occupied the premises from October 1, 1946 to July 1, 1947, under an oral lease at $850 per month, the rental fixed in the former lease, which amounts had been tendered to plaintiff but refused by it, and that the reasonable rental value of the…