Brown v. Cairns
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dallas District Court. — -Hon. J. D. Gamble, Judge. Action at law, aided by attachment, to recover rent reserved in a lease made by plaintiffs to the defendants. The defendants moved to dismiss and discharge the attachment. They also pleaded a surrender of the lease, to which pleading the plaintiffs demurred. The demurrer being overruled, plaintiffs filed a reply, to which defendants demurred, and this demurrer was sustained.
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Appeal from Dallas District Court. — -Hon. J. D. Gamble, Judge. Action at law, aided by attachment, to recover rent reserved in a lease made by plaintiffs to the defendants. The defendants moved to dismiss and discharge the attachment. They also pleaded a surrender of the lease, to which pleading the plaintiffs demurred. The demurrer being overruled, plaintiffs filed a reply, to which defendants demurred, and this demurrer was sustained. Defendants apueal from an order overruling their motion to> discharge the attached property, and plaintiffs from the ruling on the demurrers.. As plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, C. J.
In November of the year 1894 appellants leased to the appellees, for the term of ten years, a tract of land of some two thousand acres, situated in Coffey county, Nansas, for the agreed rental of one thousand dollars for each of the first five years and one thousand five hundred dollars for each of the remaining five, payable in two equal cash payr ments, on the first days of June and December in each year. The term was to commence on the first day of March, 1895, and continue for ten years from that date. Defendants went into possession under the terms of the lease, and continued to use and…
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