Conservative Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Warnecke

ANDERSON, Judge.

This is an action brought by plaintiff, a lessee in the Paul Brown Building in St. Louis, to construe its lease and to declare that a claimed increase under an escalator clause in the rental provisions of said lease was ineffective for want of timely notice to it of defendant’s claim to said increase. Defendant, the lessor, in his answer requested a finding that the said escalator clause was operative and that plaintiff was indebted to him for additional rent, for which amount defendant prayed judgment. The court found the issues in favor of plaintiff and, from the judgment…