Suko v. Northwestern Ice Co.
Decision Date | 13 May 1941 |
Citation | 113 P.2d 209,166 Or. 557 |
Parties | SUKO <I>v.</I> NORTHWESTERN ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. ET AL. |
Court | Oregon Supreme Court |
See 20 R.C.L. 74 (7 Perm. Supp., 4824) 36 C.J., Landlord and Tenant, § 968
Before KELLY, Chief Justice, and BELT, BAILEY, LUSK, RAND and ROSSMAN, Associate Justices.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Multnomah County.
Personal injury action by Albert Suko against the Northwestern Ice & Cold Storage Company and others. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff against the named defendant, it appeals.
AFFIRMED. REHEARING DENIED.
C.D. Phillips, of Portland (Griffith, Peck & Coke and Maurice W. Seitz, all of Portland, on the brief), for appellant.
Leo Levenson, of Portland (Prendergast & Prendergast, of Portland, on the brief), for respondent.
This action was brought by Albert Suko against Northwestern Ice & Cold Storage Company, a corporation, and the officers and trustees of E. Henry Wemme Endowment Fund, a charitable corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by him as the result of the bursting of a water tank. An involuntary nonsuit was entered against the plaintiff and in favor of the officers and trustees of the charitable corporation. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the cold storage company that defendant appeals.
On October 1, 1929, the charitable corporation leased to the cold storage company, which hereinafter will be referred to as the defendant, the south 120 feet of block 72, East Portland, within the corporate limits of the city of Portland, for a period of 50 years at a monthly rental of $406.50 for the first 158 months of the term and the sum of $10 per year for the remainder thereof, with an option to the lessee to purchase the property at any time within the first 158 months of the demised term for $44,336.85, the lessee to receive credit on the purchase price for $280.60 per month from the date of the lease to the time of purchase. At the time the plaintiff was injured the defendant had not exercised the option.
The leasing agreement between the defendant and the charitable corporation provides that:
When the lease was entered into there was located on the demised property a four-story reinforced concrete building approximately 50 feet in height. The west end of the building faced Northeast Third avenue. On the top of the building, at the extreme northwest corner thereof, was a reinforced concrete superstructure or platform approximately 18 feet above the roof of the building, on which platform stood a circular tank used to store water for fire protection in connection with an automatic sprinkler system. The tank was about 16 feet in diameter and 24 feet high, constructed of wood and bound with steel hoops. It had a capacity of 30,000 gallons, but was not...
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