Tuuk v. Andersen

The -plaintiff, Henry Tuuk, is a former tenant of the defendant corporation, Saginaw Recreation Company. The defendant, Prank Andersen, is the president and sole stockholder of the corporation. The defendants appeal a jury verdict of $401,680.

There are a number of issues, but a common question, central to most of them, is whether the relationship of the parties is governed by the conversations upon which Tuuk relies or the writings upon which the defendants rely.

Tuuk, as tenant, and the corporation, as landlord, entered into a five-year written lease of a bowling alley on June 1, 1951. After…