Gamble-Robinson Co. v. Buzzard

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The parties will be referred to as in the lower court, the appellees as plaintiffs, and the appellant as defendant. The appeal is from a judgment in an action at law to recover rent for the last two years of a ten-year written lease expiring October 1, 1932. The plaintiffs’ petition set up the lease of premises described as “a three-story brick building 70 by 109 feet and basement with railroad trackage on the Illinois Central Railroad in the City of Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa,” and the failure of the defendant to pay the rent due October 1, 1930, and thereafter.

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