Fisk Tire Co. v. Hunter

The suit is for the statutory penalty, "double the amount of the annual rent agreed to be paid," recoverable by the landlord against a hold-over tenant under Code, § 8014.

Plaintiffs leased to defendant a three-story brick building in Mobile for a term beginning May 1, 1923, and ending October 31, 1928, at an annual rental of $1,020, payable in monthly installments.

The lessee, failing to surrender possession on the expiration of the lease, received three days later, November 3d, through plaintiffs' real estate agents, the following notice or demand:

"Under date of May 28th, 1923, you entered…