Pike v. Hayden

Appellants owned a 10-acre tract of land in Baker, bisected by U. S. Highway 91. A service station and café known as “Pike’s Mobile Station and Café” occupies a portion of the property lying south of the highway. On April 29,1947, appellants, under a written lease, leased the service station and café to one Cerny and wife for a three-year term. By the terms thereof the lessees were required to and did pay to appellants $600 as a last month’s rental payment, and $2,000 as liquidated damages in the event of the breach of its provisions.

About September 15, 1948, some matrimonial differences…