Grooms v. Brown-Marx Co.

GARDNER, Justice.

The original bill is one for specific performance of a contract to execute a lease upon the property situated in the city of Birmingham, and known as the Metropolitan Hotel, the lease to expire September 30, 1943, and based upon a consideration of $210 per month, plus certain percentage of gross receipts.

The case as made by complainant Grooms rests upon an alleged oral contract of lease made with him by one Kelly, who is president of defendant corporation, the payment of the first month’s rent of $210, and the further consideration that he was placed by Kelly in possession of…