Opinion ID: 1731720
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: termination of lease agreement

Text: John Parvin and other Occupants TO House Number 158 Parrish, Alabama. You are hereby notified that in consequence of your default in making payments on the premises now occupied by you at the present address, towit: House Number 158 Parrish Alabama, we have elected to terminate your tenancy/or lease and you are hereby notified to quit and deliver up possession of the same to us within ten days after the date of service of this notice. You are in arrears with your payments for the following period of time: 4 months house payments 82.28 4 months insurance 6.84 4 months water 8.00 _____ Total $97.12 Sumiton Land Company, Inc. J. E. Simmons (signed) Served this 25 day of May 1959  If the appellant's evidence stood alone, it would be clear that under the terms of the lease-sale contract Parvin's lease had been terminated and his right to purchase had been forfeited long prior to the fire, unless there had been a waiver by the Land Company. But Parvin's testimony must be considered in connection with that of Simmons to determine if a jury question was presented as to whether Parvin's lease had been terminated and his rights to purchase had been forfeited at the time of the fire. On direct examination Parvin gave no testimony in regard to the number of payments he had made prior to the fire. On cross-examination, he testified that he made a payment on the day the lease-sale contract was executed, which was on either September 10 or September 11, 1958. The uncertainty as to the date of execution results from the fact that the contract on its face shows both days as the date of execution. This discrepancy is, however, immaterial and is pointed out solely for the purpose of accuracy. On further cross-examination, Parvin was asked the following question and gave the following answer: Q. How many payments do you recall having made to them Mr. Parvin? A. I don't know. I think I made eight or ten payments. I don't know for sure. I have got receipts for about five or six. Parvin produced only five receipts dated as follows: September 10, 1958; November 4, 1958; November 19, 1958; February 28, 1959; and March 28, 1959. He stated that these were all the receipts he had; that it had been so long he might have lost some; that the receipts he produced may be all of them.    I don't recall just how many payments I did make. The receipts produced by Parvin were in accord with the records of the Land Company. On further cross-examination, Parvin was asked the following questions and gave the following answers: Q. This last one [receipt] is dated March 28. Do I understand your testimony to be you had made, you think, some eight or ten payments on the property? A. I thought I had. I may be wrong; I don't know. Anyway that is all the receipts I have. I may have more and I may not. I couldn't say for sure without the receipts.