Cohen v. Power Investment Co.

Respondent-landlord brought suit in Adams County Court to evict lessees Cohen and Binkley, alleging that they had made substantial alterations in his property, and had thereby breached the terms of their lease. The county court ruled that the petitioners Cohen and Binkley had breached the lease, and, on appeal the district court affirmed. We granted certiorari, and now affirm.

Petitioners entered into a ten-year lease in June 1970 for the possession of a building and property. The lease bound the lessees not to “. . . make any alterations or change in, upon, or about said premises without…