Livingston v. Miller

This was an action to recover rent. The clause of the lease upon which recovery was sought was in the following words: “Yielding and paying therefor unto the said party of the first part (the plaintiff), yearly and every year, on the first day of January during the term, at the North river, within the county of Columbia, or within the said lot No. 3, as the party of the first part shall from time to time direct,” twenty-six dollars, two days’ riding, and four hens.

The defendant, in his answer, alleged that the plain*132tiff had not directed where or at what place the rents should -be paid, and…