Kendis

Appellants on or about July 12, 1918, were the owners in fee of certain real property situated in the city of Los Angeles, consisting of an apartment house of 122 rooms and the land upon which the apartment house stood. On that date appellants leased the premises to W. A. Barker and C. H. Barker for a period of 15 years at a monthly rental of $975. The lessees, W. A. Barker and C. H. Barker, however, never took possession, but immediately and as a part of the same transaction the appellants and the original lessees entered into an agreement by which it was provided that the said lessees could execute a sublease to respondent Minnie Kendis for a term not exceeding the term provided in the original lease, conditioned that the terms and obligations of the original lease were fully kept and performed.

Subsequent to this agreement, but on the same day this agreement was entered into and the original lease was executed, the original lessees and respondent entered into an agreement styled “Sub-Lease,” whereby the lessees demised to respondent all of the premises described in the original lease for the term provided in such lease, and upon the same terms, conditions and covenants as…