Bluthenthal v. Atkinson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson. Circuit Court; Antonio B. Grace, Judge; statement by the court. Appellant entered into a lease -contract with appellee’s intestate on August 1, 1903, for a certain brick store building on Main Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to continue for five years, ending September 1, 1908. This contract provided that the lessee might renew the lease for five years upon the same terms and conditions, “but the said lessee shall give 'the said lessor sixty days’…
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Appeal from Jefferson. Circuit Court; Antonio B. Grace, Judge; statement by the court. Appellant entered into a lease -contract with appellee’s intestate on August 1, 1903, for a certain brick store building on Main Street in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to continue for five years, ending September 1, 1908. This contract provided that the lessee might renew the lease for five years upon the same terms and conditions, “but the said lessee shall give 'the said lessor sixty days’ notice if he so desires to occupy said building.” The provision of sixty -days’ notice required the lessee to give notice…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts:) 1. Appellant, lessee, under the contract had a lease of the building as follows:
“For the term of five years from and after the first day of September, 1903, with the privilege on the part of the said lessee to occupy the said building for five years longer upon the same terms and conditions as herein described, but the said lessee shall give the said lessor sixty days’ notice if he so desires to occupy said building.”
When the five years expired, the lease for that term was at an end. But appellant had the privilege of occupying the building on the same…
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