Murray v. Mounts

Suit on an agreement for the payment of rent for the use of a tract of land, during the year 1860; averment. of non-payment.

Judgment for the defendants.

The parties agreed to a statement of facts, upon which the Court found for the defendants, in substance, as follows: “ The execution of the agreement was admitted, and that Mounts took possession of and cultivated the land, under the said agreement, but had not paid part of the rent reserved, because, at the time the land was rented to him, by said female plaintiff" she was in possession thereof, as the widow of one Adams, who died in…