Brunswick Corp. v. Goodie Investments, Inc.

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The Brunswick Corporation had a lease with Goodie Investments, Incorporated, which expired on August 31, 1967. In the middle of March of 1967 the property was severely damaged by flood, and on May 7 Brunswick notified Goodie by mail, after it had begun the removal of its bowling equipment, that it was exercising its right to cancel the lease. For some inexplicable reason Brunswick refused to turn over the keys to the property after several requests and even chained and padlocked the doors so that Goodie would have had to break the locks in order to enter the premises for the…