Mayer & Crine v. Morehead

Mrs. L. L. Morehead as executrix sued out a distress warrant against Mayer & Crine for $700.00 rent, claimed to be due, for the year 1897, for. certain farming lands in Dougherty county. Defendants filed a counter-affidavit, and, on the trial, put in evidence a lease from plaintiff to th,em, the material parts of which were, that plaintiff leased to defendants the Mud Creek and Walker places oi; farms, from 1893 to 1898, at a rental of $700.00 a year, and the lessees agreed “to keep up all repairs at their own expense, fire and providential causes excepted ”; which lease was signed by…