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Plaintiff recovered a judgment in the sum of $710.50 which he alleged was due as rent for certain premises in the city of Bakersfield. From this judgment defendants appeal. The Bakersfield Tobacco Company occupied the premises in question in the first instance under a lease executed on January 22,1922, for a period of two years from February 15, 1922. This lease, which was signed by Gustave J. McGregor, then a partner of the Ehrmans in the company, contained a provision giving the lessee an option of renewal. The defendants Ehrman became successors to the interest of McGregor in the affairs of the Bakersfield Tobacco Company, which was a copartnership having its principal place of business in the city of San Francisco. On January 9, 1924, a new lease was executed by plaintiff’s assignor as lessor and the Bakersfield Tobacco Company as lessee, for a period of two years from February 15, 1924, at a monthly rental of $100 per month with option of renewal on the part of the lessees. This lease provided $300 should be paid at once for the first three months, and receipt of this sum was acknowledged in the lease. The instrument was signed, “Bakersfield Tobacco Co., By H. J. Freyschlag.”…