Court Opinion

ID: 9579864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:59:22.227105+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:50.849876
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Carlisle, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment reversing this case. However, I feel constrained to say that I do not fully agree with the holding in Division 2 of the opinion to the effect that it was not error for the trial judge to inform the jury in grounds 4 through 8 that forfeitures are not favored by the law. However, whether this holding is erroneous or not or whether the trial judge erred in making the charge or not is entirely immaterial and harmless for the reason that the evidence demanded a verdict in favor of the lessees.
*142A breach of paragraph 8 of the lease does not give rise to a forfeiture until and. unless the lessees “refuse,” after demand, to comply with said paragraph or cure the breach thereof. There is no proof in this case that the plaintiffs-lessors made such a demand upon the lessees either prior to or after the alleged breach and prior to their attempt to declare the lease forfeited. The lessors, therefore, are not entitled to declare the lease forfeited and the verdict in favor of the lessees was demanded by the evidence. Under these circumstances, the granting of a new trial to the plaintiffs-lessors was error -and the verdict should stand. The cross bill of exceptions of the lessors, complaining only of charges of the court and the admission and rejection of evidence which admitted evidence if rejected and which rejected evidence if admitted, could not have changed the result of the case, should be dismissed.