Yakima Lodge No. 53, K. of P. v. Schneider

This is an action to recover damages for breach of a contract to furnish adequate heat to certain premises leased to the plaintiff. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor. After denying defendant’s several motions subsequent to the verdict, the court entered its judgment, from which defendant appeals.

In 1922, appellant leased to the respondent the second floor of a building in the city of Yakima for a term of five years. When the lease expired in 1927, a new lease was entered into between the parties for an additional period of five years. Although the respondent intended to, and…