Van Rensselaer's Executors v. Jewett
New York Supreme Court
Covenant for rent on a lease in fee, dated 8th December, 1813, executed by Stephen Van Rensselaer, since deceased, to William Davis, for 188T37 acres of land in Guilderland, tried at the Albany circuit in October, 1844, before Parker, Cir. J. The lease was produced and proved.
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Covenant for rent on a lease in fee, dated 8th December, 1813, executed by Stephen Van Rensselaer, since deceased, to William Davis, for 188T37 acres of land in Guilderland, tried at the Albany circuit in October, 1844, before Parker, Cir. J. The lease was produced and proved. It reserved “ the yearly rent of eighteen bushels and three-fourths of a bushel of good, clean, merchantable, winter wheat, and four fat hens, to be delivered at the now mansion house of the said Stephen Van Rensselaer, in the town of Watervliet, unless specially directed by the said Stephen Van Rensselaer, his heirs,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Whittlesey, J.
The question presented in this case is important in determining the amount of damages upon a vast number of contracts simil ir to that now under consideration. In the indenture upon which this action is brought, the lessee covenanted to pay or deliver a specific number of bushels of wheat, oilier articles of personal prop *137erty, on a specified day, at a fixed place, as rent of the premises occupied by him. He neglected to pay or deliver the wheat and the other articles according to his covenant—in other words, he neglected to pay his rent at the time, place, and in…
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