Stanford v. Mountaineer Container Co., Court of Appeals of North Carolina, 1988

Court: Court of Appeals of North Carolina Date: 1988-02-02 Docket number: No. 8728SC479 Opinion type: lead Author: Wells Judges: Cozort, Johnson, Wells Precedential status: Published

WELLS, Judge.

The sole question for review and apparently one of first impression before our appellate courts is whether a landlord may recover back rent from a month-to-month periodic tenant at will where despite the landlord’s prior notice of a rental increase, the tenant continued to pay and the landlord to accept without