Pappas v. General Market Co.

Citations

• 104 Wash. 116
• 176 P. 25
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1169

Syllabus

<p>Trover and Conversion (13) — Defenses—Restoration or Tender —Tender op Property. A mere direction to the owner of property to remove it from defendant’s place of business where it was stored is not a tender that would absolve the wrong, and there was a conversion, where defendant afterwards sold and delivered the property to a third person, on account of plaintiff’s failure to comply with the demand for removal.</p> <p>Frauds, Statute of (11) — Leases—More Than One Year. A lease for one year, although executed within the month prior to its taking effect, is not a lease for more than one year, within Rem. Code, § 8802, requiring such leases to be acknowledged.</p> <p>Landlord and Tenant (87) — Eviction—Acts Constituting — Agreements. A market stall tenant cannot recover for eviction, if, being unable to pay rent, he agreed to move into a cheaper stall prepared for him, and refused to vacate on notice to quit.</p>