Dunlap v. Bullard

This action is brought by the lessors upon a covenant to pay taxes contained in a lease given in 1855 for the term of twenty-two years, at a fixed rent payable quarterly. The whole interest of the original lessees was transferred by successive assignments to Shepherd Ostrom, who, in 1868, leased the premises with the buildings erected since the date of the original lease to Earl W. Johnson, to hold for a term equal to the whole of the unexpired term of the original lease, but at an increased rent payable monthly. The last-named lease also contained covenants on the part of the lessee to pay…