Rauth v. Dennison

STONE, Judge.

In this jury-waived court-tried action at law, defendant tenant appeals from the judgment of $975 entered against him for rental of the ground floor of a brick building in Rolla, Missouri, for three months from and after January 20, 1960.

Plaintiff owned a one-story brick building with full basement. The ground floor was divided into two storerooms by a center partition. In one storeroom, plaintiff and one Hardebeck had operated a hardware and sporting goods store for about seven years. During April or May 1959, plaintiff rented the other storeroom to defendant who immediately…