Gallagher v. Bennett's Heirs

P. W. Bennett brought this suit against the appellant to recover rent and the possession of a lot in the city of Houston.

On the sixth of August, 1861, Bennett executed a lease, for a term of twelve years, to the husband of appellant, with rent reserved. Mrs. Gallagher and her husband paid the rents to Bennett, acknowledging their possession under him, until 1867, when she refused to allow the rents to Bennett. Suit was not brought until the eighth of March, 1869.

John Gallagher, the husband, having died, the appellant, in an amended answer, sets up that though her husband leased the lot from…