Legal Opinion
Jones v. Dexter
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 19, 1956No. 33370PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
The decisive question in this case is whether the lessees gave the lessors a legally binding notice of their election to extend a service station lease for a five-year period.
By the terms of the lease, the lessees paid a rental of one-half cent a gallon on all gasoline sold by them, with a minimum of one hundred dollars and a maximum of two hundred dollars a month. It was a five-year lease expiring July 1, 1954, and containing the following renewal proviso:
“The lessee [appellants had succeeded to the interest of the original lessee] may at his option extend this lease for an additional…
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- Carroll v. LathamCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1923
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