Lyon v. Chase
New York Supreme Court
THIS is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Ingalls, J.
The ease contains the following : “ It was proved that during all the time in. which the defendant had been an owner of, or connected with, the premises, from 1842 down, no rent on the said indenture had been claimed, or paid by the defendant or his co-tenants; that this suit was commenced on the 12th day of May, 1864.” A more unequivocal state of facts than the above could not well be proved, as thereby it appears affirmatively, not only that the defendant had not paid rent within twenty-two years prior to the commencement of this action, but that the plaintiff had…
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