Pettitte v. Smith

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Affirming.

On February 16, 1934, Jake Smith, Ike Smith, and Octavia J. Davies, through their father and representative, Will Smith, rented to R. N. Pettitte for a period of two years a building known as the Smith filling station, and located at the Kentucky end of the Pikeville-Williamson Bridge. The contract contained the following provision:

“There is to be no gambling, gambling devices, whisky or immoral people or immoral carrying on of any nature during the life of contract, and any failure to comply with any of the above stipulations shall terminate…