Court Opinion

ID: 9664675
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:25:25.495085+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:08.477699
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On Appellee’s Amended Brief and Motion for Rehearing.
GRAY, Justice.
With permission of the court, ap-pellee has amended his brief and now challenges the correctness of appellants’ state,ment that the amount of the damage suffered by them, by reason of appellee’s breach of his lease contract, is $3,331.
This amended brief is submitted m support of appellee’s motion for rehearing.
The lease contract, dated February 15, 1950, whereby appellants leased store buildings 1200 and 1202, includes property not included in the lease contract with appellee. As to such property the contract provides: “The leased premises herein let consist of the two lower stories and two of the four room apartments known as ‘A’ and ‘B’ which are situated on the floor immediately above 1202 South Congress Avenue in the east end of the building. Lessee is also to have exclusive use of the large Iron Safe situated in the back room of the store designated as 1202 South Congress Avenue during the entire term of this lease or any extension thereof.”
The contract provides for a total rental to be paid for the store buildings, the apartments, and the iron safe, and we find no apportionment of the rentals in the evidence, for which reason we are unable to determine the amount of damages sustained by appellants.
The agreement of the attorneys referred to in the trial court’s finding of fact No. 17 set out in our original opinion has not been made known to us and we are unable to base any judgment thereon.
Appellee argues that because of its recital of its beginning and ending dates the lease contract with him is a six-year lease. The parties have treated the same as a five-year contract. The trial court was not called on to interpret the contract, and no point is here presented authorizing us to construe it in any manner other than as it has been treated by the parties.
Appellee’s motion for rehearing1 is granted to the extent that our judgment awarding appellants a recovery of $3,331 is set aside and the cause is now reversed and remanded to the trial court for the sole and only purpose of determining the amount of damages sustained by appellants by reason of appellee’s breach of his lease contract. In all other respects the motion for rehearing is overruled.
Motion granted in part and in part overruled.