Wilson Management Co. v. Star Distributors Co.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Plaintiff-lessor sued defendant-lessee for the rent due for the balance of the term of a written lease, following lessee’s abandonment of the premises, and for a reasonable attorney’s fee as provided in the lease. This Court’s grant of defendant’s Rule 11 application was limited to the propriety of the trial judge’s award of an attorney’s fee of one-third of the rent due, without hearing any proof as to what would be a reasonable fee.

Defendant is a wholesale liquor distributor, and in 1965 leased premises on Manas-sas Street in Memphis to be used as an office and…