Montgomery v. Board of Commissioners

Best, C.

This suit was brought by the appellant to recover from the appellee $250, alleged to be due him for the rent of certain premises described in the complaint. A demurrer, for want of facts, wTas sustained to the complaint* and this ruling presents the only question in the record.

The facts averred are, briefly, that the appellant’s vendor,, on the 1st day of July, 1875, leased the premises in the complaint described, to the appellee, for three years from that, time, for $500 per year, payable semi-annually in advance,, with the privilege of keeping them two years longer upon the same…