Pendill v. Neuberger

This is an action of assumpsit to recover rent claimed to be due upon a verbal lease.

The declaration contains a special count, as follows:

“For that whereas, the said defendant, on or about the first day of March, 1885, entered into a verbal agreement with James P. Pendill, now deceased, to rent of him his store upon Superior street, in the city of Marquette and State of Michigan, which he was then occupying, and which he had occupied from the second day of February previous; and whereas, the said defendant agreed to pay for the use of said store the sum of eight hundred dollars yearly rental,…