118 Mo. App. 334 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1906
This is an action for unlawful detainer, commenced in a justice’s court and in due course appealed to the circuit court. The evidence is practically the same as in the case of Rogers v. S. E. Grote Paint Company, 118 Mo. App. 300, to recover an installment of rent. The lease contains the following clause not quoted in the case for rent, to-wit:
“It is expressly covenanted between the lessor and the lessee that any failure on the part of the lessee to pay any installments of rent covenanted to be paid by the terms of this lease, for a period of three days after the same shall be due and payable, and any breach, upon the part of the lessee, of any other covenant in this lease contained, shall, at the option of the lessor, operate as a forfeiture of this lease, and the lessor shall have the right to declare such forfeiture by giving 'five days’ notice of its intention so to do, to the lessee, said notice to be in writing, and delivered to the lessee or any person in charge of the premises.”
The plaintiff did not exercise her option to declare the lease forfeited for non-payment of rent, by giving notice to defendant of her intention to do so, and for this reason the defendant contends that she cannot recover. The suit is not brought upon the theory that there had been a forfeiture of the lease declared by plaintiff for non-payment of rent. But the suit is bottomed upon section 4131, Revised Statutes 1899, providing that the
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
