Jenkins v. John Taylor Dry Goods Co.

This cause originated when the inheritors of Andrew Paul Jenkins instituted an action to recover one month's rent, $833.33, from his original lessee, John Taylor Dry Goods Company, under a ninety-nine year lease. To the suit on the lease for the April 1942 rent the John Taylor Dry Goods Company answered that all obligations due by it under the lease had been fully discharged and paid and, after pleading the terms of the lease, set forth the circumstances upon which it relied as demonstrating that it had completely fulfilled its obligations to Andrew Paul Jenkins and his heirs under the lease.…