Cameron

This is an action to recover rent alleged to be due under the terms of a written lease. Judgment passed for defendants and plaintiff appeals.

The facts are these: Plaintiff owned a lot in the city of Brawley upon which stood a one-story building then occupied by plaintiff and to which it was about to add a second story. Defendants, husband and wife, desired to rent the ground floor upon the completion of the contemplated improvement. On December 22, 1920, the parties executed a written instrument wherein plaintiff is designated as the party of the first part and “lessor,” and defendants are designated as parties of the second part and “lessees.” That document, so far as it is material to our inquiry, reads: “The said lessor . . . have leased, demised and let, and by these presents do lease, demise and let unto the said lessees, and the said lessees do hire and take of and from the said lessor, all the following described premises, ... to wit: The entire ground floor of that certain building located on Lot Fifteen . . . for the term of three (3) years, commencing on the-day of-, 19—, and ending on the - day of -, 19—, at a rental of sixty-three hundred dollars ($6,300.00) for said…