Peasley

In this case the appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendants in an action brought by the plaintiffs for the collection of certain payments on a lease and the note for $1,200, given for the last six months’ rental under said lease, which lease purported to rent lots 13 and 15 of Block 91, Long Beach township, county of Los Angeles, state of California, for a period of four years and four months, at a total rental of $9,800, and was signed “Producers Market Company, a corporation, per T. W. Burnam, ’ ’ without seal. The date of both note and lease was the tenth day of November, 1921. Lease rentals were payable at the rate of $150 a month on the first day of each month for the first year, beginning December 1, 1921, and the the rate of $200 per month on the first day of each month thereafter during the term of the lease. Plaintiffs prayed for judgment for $1,200 and interest at eight per cent and a further sum of $120 attorneys’ fees and an additional sum of $600 for four months’ accrued rentals. This action was filed on March 31, 1922. The note was signed “Producers Market Company, per T. W. Burnam.” The Producers Market Company, Incorporated, and T. W. Burnam, defendants,…