State v. Bress

CASE SUMMARY

Buchanan, P.J.

Appellant-State of Indiana (the State) appeals a judgment awarding damages for breach of a lease to Appellee-Bress et al. (Bress), claiming that the State was not bound by certain lease provisions and there was insufficient evidence to support the damages found by the trial court.

Affirmed.

FACTS

The evidence most favorable to the trial court’s judgment is as follows:

On January 23, 1959, the State leased from Kirshbaum Realty Company (Kirshbaum) the 9-story Sommers Building in downtown Indianapolis to serve as an office building and claims center for the Indiana…