Case ID: ky-op_7/html/0273-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lindsay :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Joyes v. Edwin Barrow.
    Use and Occupation — Surrender of Premises — Rent.
    Failure of a tenant to surrender the premises in as good condition as he agreed to do does not imply a promise to continue to pay rent, nor render him liable for the use of the premises after the surrender of them.
    AiPPEAiL FROM JEFFERSON OO'URT OF COMMON PLEAjS.
    November 1, 1873.
    
      Pat Joyes, for appellant.
    
    -, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Lindsay :

This action was instituted to recover for use and occupation of the lot named in the lease of April 1, 1870.

The proof shows that the lessee abandoned the possession at the expiration of the term. He may have failed to leave the premises in as good order as he consented to do, but from his failure in this regard the law will not imply a promise to continue the payment of rent.

It is not necessary that Barrow should deny at all that he failed to surrender the lot in good order. The action was not for the recovery of damages on that account, but for the use and occupation of the lots, and he does deny, specifically and unequivocally, that he used or occupied it in any manner during the period named in the petition.

Judgment affirmed.