Ratliff v. Davis

The parties to this litigation are here in reverse order of their appearance in the trial court, where defendants in error were plaintiffs and plaintiffs in error were defendants. We will refer to them as they appeared in the trial court, or by name.

Plaintiffs’ complaint, stated in three claims, alleged that plaintiffs as lessors entered into a written lease with Ratliff-Gore Motors, Inc., a corporation, as lessee, on a business property in Las Animas, Colorado. Lessee was to occupy the property “for the sale and repair of automobiles and as an automobile garage and the sale of automobile…