Brooke Smith Realty Co. v. Graham

Brooke Smith Realty Company, a corporation, sued William Graham for $13,840, claimed as 16 months’ rent on a hotel building in Brownwood, owned by ap-1 pellant, plaintiff below, and occupied and used by appellee as a hotel. Appellant claimed this as rent due from and after August 1, 1921. There was also an item of $490, claimed as rents on a sample room, but this item was not disputed. Appellant alleged that under an oral contract it rented said hotel to appellee in 1913, for an indefinite term, at $100 per month and table board for Brooke Smith; that about August, 1919, at the solicitation…