Skakel v. Hennessey

Mu. Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellee sued the appellant before a justice, claiming rent, and recovered a judgment, from which the appellant appealed to the Superior Court, where he fared no better, and he has come here. ' The parties were the only witnesses, and agree expressly or tacitly, that about May 1, 1893, the appellant paid the appellee $25 for the rent of that month, of a house or rooms, then and thereafter occupied by the sisters of the appellant, and made an arrangement with the appellee to paper and paint the house or rooms.

The case Avas so hastily tried…