Jackson v. Beling

This is an action to enforce a verbal contract of lease-which the plaintiffs say they made of their store, at 28 and 30 Tchoupitoulas street, New Orleans, to the defendant, for one year, from the first day of November, 1867, at the rate of $110 per month. Under this lease they claim $990 and the writ of provisional seizure which was granted them.

*378The defense is, that tlie premises were not leased by the year, but ■only by the month, at $110 per month; that he, the defendant, positively declined to take the premises, except by the month, and he refused to accept a year’s lease, although the…