Maddox & Co. v. Cleary
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Hall county. Tried below before Harrison, J. cited, to the contention that a new trial should have been awarded on the ground of surprise, etc.: Volland v. Wilcox, 17 Neb., 46; Leighton v. Dixon, 42 Kan., 618; Symons v. Bunnell, 80 Cal., 330; Robertson v. Williams, 81. Id., 268; First Natl. Bank v. Harwich, 74 la., 227; Donnelly v. McAdams, 13 Atl.
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Error to the district court for Hall county. Tried below before Harrison, J. cited, to the contention that a new trial should have been awarded on the ground of surprise, etc.: Volland v. Wilcox, 17 Neb., 46; Leighton v. Dixon, 42 Kan., 618; Symons v. Bunnell, 80 Cal., 330; Robertson v. Williams, 81. Id., 268; First Natl. Bank v. Harwich, 74 la., 227; Donnelly v. McAdams, 13 Atl. Rep. [R. I.], 108; Smith v. Rawlings’s Adm’r, 3 S. E. Rep. [Ya.], 238; Francis v. Cox, 33 Cal., 323; Hinman v. Hamilton, 53 Wis., 169; Burrough v. Hill, 2 Atl. Rep. [R. I.], 382; Reinke v. Morse, 10 S. 1Y. Rep.…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Ch. J.
In 1888 the plaintiffs were engaged in the mercantile business in Kansas, and being desirous of changing their location the senior member of the firm went to Grand Isl- and and found there a vacant store-room belonging to the defendant in error. It is claimed on behalf of the defendant in error that a verbal lease was finally entered into between the parties, by reason of which the plaintiffs in error agreed to rent the store-room for a year at $75 per month and pay two months’ rent in advance. This action is brought to recover $150 for the rent so to be paid in advance. The…
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