Dodge v. Chapman

The plaintiff, Dodge, executed a lease of a rooming-house property to one Plevros. The lessee was not privileged to assign without lessor’s written consent. An agreement was made whereby plaintiff consented to an assignment negotiated by Plevros to the defendants, Chas. D. Chapman and Anna E. Chapman, husband and wife, on condition that the Chapmans furnish a bond in the penal sum of three thousand dollars for their faithful performance of the conditions of the lease. The Chapmans furnished such bond, with themselves as principals, and the defendants, J. W. Chapman and W. D. Altenburg, as…