Jones v. American Oil Company

WINANS, Justice.

This action was brought under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, SDCL 21-24, to secure a judgment declaring the rights and duties of the parties in a lease agreement. From a judgment favorable to the plaintiff, the defendant has appealed. We affirm.

On September 30, 1952, H. Wells Jones (plaintiff) entered into the lease agreement which is the subject of this controversy with the American Oil Company (defendant). Ey the terms of the written agreement, the defendant oil company agreed to lease a filling station owned by the plaintiff for a term of ten years with two optional…