King v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of debt on book. The cause was referred to auditors, who made their report embracing the following facts.
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This was an action of debt on book. The cause was referred to auditors, who made their report embracing the following facts. George King, shortly before the first of April, 1852, leased to the defendants, a large brick store, with the lot upon which it stood, in the city of Hartford, at a rent of $1,000 per annum, for the term of one year from the said first day of April, with the privilege, on the part of the defendants, of occupying the premises, for five years, at the same rent. The shop had been recently. erected, and some further work was needed upon the building and lot, to put them in…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
This is an action brought to recover for the use and occupation of certain real estate. Upon the trial before the auditors, it appeared, that the occupation of the defendants commenced under a parol lease from George King, then the owner of the estate, and from whom the defendants derive title, since the occupation commenced.
The defendants, for the purpose of showing the extent of their liability, offered parol evidence of their agreement with *61King, under which they entered and occupied-the premises. To the admission of this evidence the plaintiffs objected, but the auditors received it.
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