Steel v. Thompson

This action was brought to recover the sum of $375 deposited by appellants with respondent to secure the payment of rent under the terms of a lease executed by the latter to the former. As stated by appellants, “the only point relied upon for a reversal of the judgment in this case is that it appears conclusively that there was a surrender of the lease by the tenants and an unqualified acceptance by the landlord of such surrender.” If the last statement be true, then, as the trial court stated, the plaintiffs or appellants herein are entitled to the $375. In relation to this controverted…