Chagnard v. Schiro

HIGGINS, Judge.

This is a suit by a lessor against a lessee to recover rent for the balance of the term of the written lease on the ground that the lessee failed to pay one of the rent notes when it matured, thereby causing the remaining notes, under a provision in the lease, to become due and exigible. Plaintiff also claimed damages to the furniture and fixtures in the leased apartment said to have resulted through the defendant’s carelessness.

The defendant admitted the signing of the lease and the rent notes, but denied that the remaining unpaid rent notes matured, averring that the rent was…