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Title: Davenport V. Stratton
Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
Release Date : January 02, 1944
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 68 KB

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CURTIS, J. -- Plaintiff, as the assignee of 11 West 42nd Street, Inc., a New York corporation (hereinafter referred to as the lessor or the corporation), instituted this action to recover from the defendant an amount alleged to have been due and unpaid under the terms of a certain lease and agreement executed by her assignor, as lessor, and one Albert De Windt, as lessee, and guaranteed by the defendant, George W. Stratton, and one Stanley E. Comstock. The property was described in the lease as two offices numbered 1454 and 1456 in a certain building situated in the city of New York. The term of the lease was for five years and two and one-half months beginning on February 16, 1929, and ending on April 30, 1934. The rental was $3,000 per year, payable $250 per month in advance on the first day of each month of the term, except as to the first month's rent, which was made payable on the signing of the lease. The evidence shows without any substantial conflict that such a lease was executed by the parties thereto at or about the first day of February, 1929. Thereafter the lessee, De Windt, concluded that he required additional room in which to carry on his business and began negotiating with the lessor for such additional space. The