193 Iowa 534 | Iowa | 1922
— The parties hereto were parties to a lease, wherein the plaintiff was lessor and the defendant was lessee. The rental provided therein was $45 per month, to be paid promptly in advance upon the first day of each month. The monthly rent was due on June 1, 1921. A three days’ notice to quit was served on June 7th. The rent was tendered on June 8th, and refused. The principal contention urged in argument by the appellant is .that the plaintiff had no right to institute proceedings forfeiting the lease, either by a three days’ notice or otherwise, until he had first made a demand for the rent. The trouble with this argument is that the major premise upon which it is predicated is contradicted by the express findings of fact by the court. The court found, and the evidence sustains the finding, that, on the first day of June, the plaintiff demanded his rent, and that .the defendant not only neglected to pay the same, but refused to pay the same, by reason of some grievance which he had against .thff plaintiff. He: did offer the plaintiff a part of the rent, i as a settlement of the grievance, and this the plaintiff refused. Whatever'' the merits of defendant’s grievance, it cannot be said that the plaintiff failed to demand his rent.
The further point is made on behalf of the- defendant that he did not pay his May rent until the 4th day of the month, nor his April rent until the 2d day of the month; and that, by accept