Easterling v. Peterson

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

Defendant Peterson, general partner for San Juan Associates, was granted a summary judgment on plaintiff Beulah Easter-ling’s complaint and she appeals. We reverse.

Plaintiff sued in district court for breach of contract and damages allegedly suffered as a result of defendant’s entry into premises subleased by plaintiff upon her failure to pay rent in a timely manner. It was developed through the pleadings and Easterling’s deposition that she had assumed a lease from defendant’s prior lessee, obliging herself to make monthly rental payments on the first of each month,…