Central Hardware Co. v. Elliott

OPINION.

The question to be decided is whether the lease contract entered into was for *573twenty months, as contended by plaintiff, or by the month, as claimed by defendant.

It is admitted by both plaintiff and defendant that a lease contract was entered into.

Mr. J. A. R. Peart and Mr. J. G. Bond, who represented the plaintiff in making the lease, swore positively that the lease was for the full remaining term of plaintiff’s own lease, or twenty months.

Defendant, William H. Elliott, swore positively that the lease was from month to month at $100.00 per month, and that he was at liberty to abandon…