Gorman's, Inc. v. Commerce Trust Co.

HOLMAN, Presiding Judge.

This action was instituted by plaintiff in an effort to recover damages in the sum of $200,000 for the alleged breach of a lease by defendants. Defendants as trustees of a trust estate owned an eight-story building located at 12th and Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, which was leased to plaintiff in 1954 for a period of fifteen years. The building was destroyed by fire on July 4, 1960. In this suit plaintiff alleges that defendants failed to insure certain improvements made by it to the premises as required by the lease and therefore it has been damaged to the…