Stewart v. Lanier House Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Leases. Claims. Damages. Charge of Court. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1884. The Lanier House Company sued out three distress warrants and brought an action of complaint against J. S. Stewart, based on rent notes, amounting in all to thirty-nine hundred dollars, for rent of the Lanier House, a hotel situated in the city of Macon.
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Leases. Claims. Damages. Charge of Court. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1884. The Lanier House Company sued out three distress warrants and brought an action of complaint against J. S. Stewart, based on rent notes, amounting in all to thirty-nine hundred dollars, for rent of the Lanier House, a hotel situated in the city of Macon. To these distress warrants Stewart filed his counter-affidavit, denying that there was any rent due by him, but alleging that the Lanier House Company was indebted to him in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The plaintiff, by its lease, covenanted to keep the hotel in tenantable condition during the term for which the defendant leased it, and bound him not to make changes or *598alterations in the building or premises without its consent, inhibiting hirh even from making repairs at its expense without obtaining'its consent before the same were made. There is little doubt that, by a failure to keep this covenant, the building and premises fell into a ruinous condition, and a large portion of it was suffered to become unfit for comfortable occupancy. To suits for the rent, defendant…
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