South Parkway Building Corp. v. South Center Department Store, Inc.

This case involves the construction of the granting clause of a lease. The lease was executed on June 24, 1952 between South Parkway Building Corporation, as lessor (that corporation is the plaintiff-counter-defendant-appellant, hereafter referred to as the lessor), and the Meadows Mercantile Corp., as lessee (that corporation’s name was subsequently changed to South Center Department Store, Inc., and is the defendant-counter-plaintiff-appellee hereafter referred to as the lessee).

The premises demised are described in the granting clause in five different ways:(1) “the premises known as…