Vaulx v. Buntin

This suit was brought by tbe complainants to recover ft,000, which sum was set out as liquidated damages recoverable upon a breach by the defendant of a certain contract entered into between complainants and defendant on September 5, 1907.

*120By the terms of this contract complainants leased to the defendant Buntin a tract of land and house on the Franklin turnpike for a term of three years. Complainants own about 200 acres there, and leased to the defendant the mansion house and about seventeen acres. It was provided in this contract that defendant should pay $500 a year rent, payable quarterly,…