Pardue v. Potter

This case began as an action filed in August 1989 by Chuck Pardue and Downtown Stadium Inn, Inc. ("DSI"), as lessors, to recover damages for breach of a lease agreement executed in March 1988. Pardue and DSI ("the plaintiffs") alleged that the lessees, Robert D. Potter, Terry Lee Bell, Dorothy Babb, and Alexander Haas, individually, and Potter and Bell as agents of lessee businesses ("the defendants"), had breached the lease agreement by failing to pay rent due and by wrongfully continuing to possess the leased premises. The defendants answered, denying all claims in the complaint; they filed…