Robert Werk & Co. v. Shirer

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff partnership, having leased a commercial building to another partnership of which defendant is the sole surviving member, permitted the temporary use by the said tenant partnership of a part of an adjoining building and now seeks to recover from the surviving member of the lessee partnership rent for the use of the adjoining building for the time during which it was in use.

The defense is that the use of the adjoining building was voluntarily granted by the plaintiff partnership with the understanding that no rent was to be paid.

From a judgment against defendant in the…