Halbut v. Forrest City

Appellants wmre the owners of a lot and building in Eorrest City, which they had rented to the city for the year 1874, at the rate of $50 per month, by verbal contract. On the sixteenth of December of that year the building was destroyed by fire.

In September, 1876, they filed in the circuit court of St. Erancis county their complaint against the town, in three' paragraphs.

The first charges that in the contract for 1874 the town ■agreed, at the expiration of the lease, to surrender the building in the same condition, in all respects, as it was received, and to keep it meanwhile in repair; that…