John Shillito Co. v. Bassler

The John Shillito Company, plaintiff in error here, brought suit in the municipal court of Cincinnati on a claim for rent for certain real estate, claimed to be due under a written lease for the premises executed by the company’s predecessor in title.

The defendants, Harry E. Bassler and Ethelle Bassler, defendants in error here, defend on the ground that the plaintiff through its agent agreed to release the defendants from the lease and all obligations thereof, provided the defendants entered into a lease for other property of which the plaintiff’s agent was agent; and that, relying on that…