Shephard v. Lerner

GOOD, J. pro tem. *

Appellant Lerner, owner and lessor of premises known as the Evans Hotel, situate on Broadway at Front Street in San Francisco, appeals from a judgment in favor of respondents that declared a lease dated April 6, 1951, void and determined that no enforceable rights or duties subsisted thereunder. Respondents Shephard were the lessees and Kircher and Pennebaker were guarantors of performance of lessees’ obligations under the lease. For some five years prior to the date of the lease Kircher and Pennebaker had operated the premises as a hotel and apartment house under a…