Thornton v. Ellis

Carley, Judge.

Appellant-plaintiff lessors filed this dispossessory action, alleging that appellee-defendant lessees were holding over pursuant to a five-year lease agreement which had expired according to its own terms. The case came on for jury trial. The evidence showed the existence of an addendum to the lease, denominated as an “attachment to lease agreement terms,” to which the parties had agreed at some uncertain time and in which one of the provisions stated, in pertinent part: “Under paragraph 2 of the Lease Agreement the tenancy shall be for a period of five (5) years at the rate of…