Metropolitan Building Co. v. Curtis Studio

This is an action of unlawful de-tainer. On January 27, 1917, the respondent, Metropolitan Building Company, being then the owner of a building in the city of Seattle, situated on a tract of land called in the record the University Tract, leased a room therein to one E. S. Curtis, the predecessor in interest of the appellant, Curtis Studio of Seattle, authorizing the lessee to fit up the room and use it as a photographic studio. The duration of the lease depended on the time of the happening of certain events, but these, when they happened, fixed its termination as of January 10,1925. The…