City Mortgage Co. v. Diller

Winifred Diller (now deceased) and the defendants Earl Diller and Lena Dichison were owners of real property in Seattle known as the “Diller Hotel.” March 26, 1928, they executed a ten-year lease on the property to defendant K. Okazaki. The rent reserved was $575 a month. The lease contained a chattel mortgage provision covering the furnishings then in the hotel and such as might thereafter, during the term of the lease, be brought in and used in the operation of the hotel.

August 24, 1931, the plaintiff Minnie L. Richardson succeeded to the rights of Okazaki as lessee. She continued in…