Standard Oil Company of Louisiana v. Joy

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff succeeded to all the rights of Liberty Oil Company, which corporation was originally the tenant of property owned by defendants. In the matter of Liberty Oil Company, Limited, v. Miss Mary Joy and Miss Catherine Joy, 147 So. 375, decided by us today, we held that the lease should be construed as placing upon the tenant the obligation of paying certain paving charges recorded against the demised property, and we so held because we were of the opinion that the tenant itself had so interpreted an ambiguous clause in the lease.

When the lease was transferred by the…