Cook v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 45 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. 1. This lease must be construed altogether so as to reach the intent of the parties.
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Case 45 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. 1. This lease must be construed altogether so as to reach the intent of the parties. When the conditions and provisions are considered there can be little doubt that both parties intended that the rights of the tenants owning improvements on Fourth street requiring the extension provided in the lease for their protection should be so protected, and the effort of the Coffin Company to destroy those rights by refusing to demand a renewal or extension of the lease is such an attempt at fraud as both law and…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered tiie opinion on the court.
Samuel II. Jones and Ms son, Samuel EL, Jr., were the owners of a lot of ground in Louisville, situated in the square bounded by Third, Chestnut, Fourth and Walnut streets, its frontage on Fourth being about one hundred and ninety feet, and extending back some two hundred and fifty feet; the frontage on Walnut was about thirty-three feet, with a depth of one hundred and eighty feet.
Prior to the rental contract, out of which this controversy grows, the premises fronting on Fourth street were occupied by a number of tenants, who had built,…
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