Gray v. Johnson
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Debt. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff and others, on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1835, leased certain premises for seven years to the defendants, reserving a rent of sixteen hundred dollars per annum, payable to the lessors and their assigns, in certain specified proportions, severally ; that the sum payable to the plaintiff was four hundred dollars, and the sum payable to George P. Willard, one of the lessors, was two hundred dollars; that on the 22d day of…
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Debt. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff and others, on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1835, leased certain premises for seven years to the defendants, reserving a rent of sixteen hundred dollars per annum, payable to the lessors and their assigns, in certain specified proportions, severally ; that the sum payable to the plaintiff was four hundred dollars, and the sum payable to George P. Willard, one of the lessors, was two hundred dollars; that on the 22d day of February, A. D. 1836, Willard assigned all his interest in ' the premises and in the rent to the plaintiff; that the…
1Opinion of the CourtGilchrist, J.
In this case the lessors, seven in number, have demised to the two defendants certain real and personal property, “ yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of sixteen hundred dollars, in the proportion following : that is to say, to the said Gray four hundred dollars; to the said Willard two hundred dollars, &c., to be paid to each of the said lessors, severally.” And the defendants covenant to pay the rent reserved punctually at the time agreed on. The suit is brought by one only of the lessors to recover his share of the rent. The defendants object that all the lessors should have…
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