Sullivan v. Booker

OPINION

HUTSON-DUNN, Justice.

Appellants, Amelia Cunningham Sullivan and Leslie High, appeal from the judgment awarding them damages for rent and taxes but denying relief on their cause of action for environmental damage to their property. Appellants sued appellee, Roy E. Booker, for breach of a lease agreement after appellee vacated the premises and did not pay rent. Appellants also sued for damages under the implied covenant to use reasonable care to protect leased premises from injury.

Appellee became appellants’ substitute lessee tenant beginning in January of 1975, when he purchased the…