NAINAR SUNDARAM, J.

This appeal is directed against the judgment and decree in O.S. No. 2439 of 1981, no the file of the Second Additional City civil Judge, Madras. The defendant is the appellant and the plaintiff is the respondent. The facts leading to the appeal may be traced as follows :

On 7-8-1964, an agreement of lease, as Ex.A. 1, was entered into between the plaintiff and Esso Standard Eastern Inc., in and by which a lease of the suit land was given to the defendant. It is sufficient if we recapitulate only the relevant terms of the lease. The period of lease was from 1-7-1964 to 30-6-1974. There was a payment of an advance of Rs. 15, 600/- to be adjusted from half of the monthly rent for the first four years. Clause 3(d) of the lease contemplated the renewal for the lease and since a part of the controversy in this Appeal arises out of this clause, we feel obliged to extract the said clause as follows :-

"That the landlord will on the written request of the tenant made 2 calendar months before the expiry of the term hereby created and if there shall not at the time of the such request any existing breach of non-observance of any of the covenants on the part of th