Mayhew v. Durfee

This seems to be an action at law on an account annexed against two defendants jointly, who are tenants in common with the plaintiff of a building. The defendants, if liable at all, are liable severally, each for his share. This case is submitted upon agreed facts, in which no objection is taken to the joinder of the defendants, and is submitted on a single point relating to a single item of the account; namely, whether the defendants are liable to contribute towards the payment of rent which the plaintiff made to the Pocasset Manufacturing Company, the owner of the land on which the building…