United Cigar Stores Co. of America v. Hollister

This was an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment in favor of defendants on their counterclaim for a month’s rent on leased premises at the corner of Sixth and Wabasha streets in St. Paul.

Plaintiff had been for some years a tenant of the corner part of defendants’ building on the site above described. In 1928 the parties agreed that defendants should erect a new building on this corner and construct the rooms plaintiff proposed to rent according to specifications prepared by it. This part of the building plaintiff leased for ten years for a cigar store, lunch room, soda fountain, or drug…