Discount City of Oakdale, Inc. v. Fournet

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

This is a suit for rent under a lease agreement executed on May 27, 1966 between Paul Jantz and Charles Derouen, as lessors, and the five defendants-appellants, Dr. James Fournet, Dr. Charles D. Bessire, Dr. Melvin L. Price, William W. Gilmore, Jr. and J. W. Dupree, as lessees. Subsequent to the execution of the lease contract, the interests of Jantz and Derouen were transferred to the plaintiff corporation.

When the lease was entered into the defendants were in the process of developing a chain of franchised restaurants known as “Dale Robertson New Frontier Stage Stops”.…