Friedman v. Noel Estate, Inc.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Gus Friedman and Arthur Arnold, businessmen of Shreveport, for a declaratory judgment decreeing that on June 5, 1956, the defendant, Noel Estate, Inc., through its President James S. Noel,1 by verbal agreement leased to them certain adjoining parcels of land already occupied as their places of business,2 fronting on the Greenwood Road on the outskirts of the city,3 the allegations of the petition being that, under the terms of a written lease dated July 22, 1952, between these plaintiffs and the defendant, Friedman occupied a strip to the…