James v. . Pope

The lease was made with the defendants in their firm name, and was binding upon them for the space of three years only, unless they elected to renew it. Before the expiration of three years, that firm dissolved; two of its members left the possession of the premises, and the business which had been carried on by them was thereafter conducted by Wheaton and the defendant Dawson, who neither elected, nor had the power to elect for the defendants to renew the lease for a further term. If they had chosen to make such election, the plaintiff was under no obligation to renew it to them. The only…