Nott v. Kincaid

The plaintiffs claim a quarter’s rent of a cotton press establishment, leased by them to the defendant.

• The defendant pleaded the general issue, and by reconvention claimed damages on account of the plaintiffs’ neglect to deliver the press in proper order, according to the contract, whereby it was at first, of but very little use, but soon after became perfectly useless, and the roof and walls fell in, so that the defendant was deprived, during three months, of the use of his establishment, and sustained great losses and damages.

The plaintiffs had judgment for little more than one-fifth of…