Brown v. Martin

The plaintiff, by act under private signature duly acknowleged and recorded, purchased a tract of land, a part of which the defendant, Martin, had rented by a verbal contract of lease from the plaintiff’s vendor previous to the sale. Ma/rtin made a sub-lease of the land to the defendant Cren-sTiom, both of whom are sued in the present action for the delivery of the land, and for damages for the illegal detention of it. We have no doubt from the evidence, that there was a renewal of the lease for the year 1853, and at all events there was a tacit reconduction for that year, and the only…