Hamilton v. Ames

This is an action in assumpsit, brought >upon a lease by which on April 29, 1879, Hamilton, Gerrish & Co. leased to the Temple Manufacturing Company for the term of 10 years a portion of block 344 in the city of Muskegon, describing the same by metes and bounds. The Temple Manufacturing Company covenanted in the lease to pay an annual rental of $150, and—

“All and every description of legal taxes and assessments which may accrue against said, leased premises during the continuance of this lease.”

The plaintiff became the assignee of Hamilton, Gerrish & Co., and the defendants the assignees of…