Armstrong v. Burkett

Citations

• 104 Wash. 476

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant (42) — Oral Lease — Month to Month— Statute. Rem. Code, § 8802, providing that leases may be in writing or print and shall be valid for any term not exceeding one year without acknowledgment, witnesses, or seal, has no application to an oral lease, which can be sustained only as a lease from month to month.</p> <p>Same (42) — Oral Lease- — Estoppel. The mere possession, payment of rent, building up and conducting of a business in the usual way for the sole benefit of the tenant, does not make an oral lease good for a definite term, on the theory of estoppel, without some further benefit to the landlord or injustice to the tenant.</p> <p>Same (147) — Forcible Entry and Detainer — Double Damages. In an action for unlawful detainer by a tenant, Rem. Code, § 827, authorizes judgment for double the amount of rent accrued; notwithstanding the defendant tendered and paid into court the amount due up to the time of trial, contesting only the landlord’s right to reenter.</p>