HICKMAN, Chief Justice.
The controlling question in this case is whether the language quoted below stipulating the damages recoverable for the breach of a lease contract is a provision for liquidated damages or for a penalty. The trial court construed it as a provision for a penalty and, finding that the lessor suffered no damages by lessee's breach except $38.50 caused by the destruction of a partition door in one of the leased buildings, rendered judgment for that...
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