Biddle v. McDonough

This is an action in the nature of a suit in equity, in which the plaintiff seeks to have the court adjudge and decree what shall be deemed the value of a certain lot demised by the plaintiff to the defendant, upon which valuation the rent to be paid shall be computed under the terms of the lease. It was alleged and proved that in January, 1870, the plaintiff, being the owner of a lot of ground situated in block No. 558 in the city of St. Louis, fronting thirty feet on Seventh Street, and extending one hundred and twenty-five feet east\yardly to a public alley, entered into a lease with the…