Court Opinion

ID: 9833168
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:30:26.085461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.248661
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
No issues were submitted to the jury. The court gave no instructions whatever, and we are unable to determine upon what issues the jury found for appellees. Appellees did not defend on the ground that they were prevented from removing their property and terminating the lease at the end of a quarter, and neither that issue, nor that as to the ordinance of the city prohibiting the placing of signs where they were placed, is made by the pleadings. The testimony on those points was without pleadings to sustain it. The jury were left at sea as to the law and rendered a verdict without any pleadings or evidence to sustain the same.
[6, 7] If appellees bought the leasehold interest of the Schuler Company, they were bound for the rent he had agreed to pay so long as they occupied the rented space, unless they were prevented by appellant from moving from the land at the end of the quarter for which the Schuler Company had paid. The Schuler Company, or its grantee, had the right to terminate the lease, under the tqrms of the lease, at the end of any quarter, and, unless it had been terminated by appellees repudiating the lease and endeavoring to remove their property, they would be liable for the rent, provided they were not prevented from removing the property by appellant. The cause should be submitted to a jury on the issues made by both pleadings and evidence, and the jury should not be turned loose without rudder or compass to wander through the mazes of pleadings unsupported by evidence, or evidence not supported by pleadings.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.