Ace Drug Marts, Inc. v. Sterling

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This is a suit to reform a lease and for sums due under the lease. John Sterling and wife, Faye Bauer Sterling, as lessors, of a building where they had operated the Sterling Drug Store, sued the lessee, Ace Drug Marts, Inc., and the assignee of the lease, Ace-Dodd Pharmacy, Inc., to reform the lease so as to charge the lessee, rather than lessor, with the payment of utilities. The plaintiffs also sought recovery of sums which the defendants had deducted from their monthly rental payments. Such sums were alleged to be equal to the utility charges which had been billed to…