Price v. Roetzell

This was a petition to enforce a landlord’s lien for rent. The petition set out the facts to be, that the plaintiff had leased to one Roetzell, a farm in St. Louis County for three years, at a rent of $500 a year, to be paid on the 1st of Oct. of each year; that the lessee entered upon the premises under the lease and continued in possession until his death, which occurred in the latter part of Sept. 1871, a few days prior to the day when the first year’s rent became due; that the rent was demanded of defendant, Mary or Margaret Roetzel, who was administratrix of the estate, but it was not…