Case Name: PEER v. EDICK
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-04-25
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 427
Docket Number: No. 279
Parties: PEER v. EDICK
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 427–427

Head Matter:
No. 410
PEER v. EDICK
Ohio Appeals, 9th Dist., Lorain County
No. 279.
Decided April 25, 1924
707. LEASE — Lessee liable for breach of lease by vacting premises unless there is a waiver or a release — Where a lessee cannot prove a waiver or release, he is liable to the lessor for damages.
Attorneys — Wm. F. Hurley and F. A. Stetson, Elyria, for Peer; G. A. Resek, Lorain, for Edick.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Epitomized Opinion
Published Only in Ohio Daw Abstract
This was an action to recover for a breach of a lease. Peer and others had entered into a lease with Edick to pay a rental of $100 per month for certain premises for a period of five years. Before the expiration of five years Peer moved out. Peer claimed that the plaintiff had orally agreed to release him from the lease if a certain door was put up. This door was put up and closed, but Peer did not move out for five or six months after the door had been closed. A jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, whereupon Peer prosecuted error. In sustaining the judgment of the lower court, the Court of Appeals held:
1. Under the evidence the plaintiff was clearly entitled to recover a judgment for the breach of this lease unless he accepted a surrender of said lease or unless he had agreed to release the tenant upon the closing of a certain door.
2. As the burden of proof was upon the defendant to bring his ease within one of these exceptions, the jury was justified in finding- for the plaintiff, and it cannot be said that this verdict was manifestly against the weight of the evidence.