Kassel v. Becker

Robertson, Justice.

The defendant Kassel, the husband of the plaintiff, was lessee of the premises in controversy from May, 1849, to May, 1856, under a lease from a Mr. Devoe, from May, 1856, to May, 1863, under a lease from his executors, and in February took a new lease of them from Miss Devoe and Mrs. Allen for seven years from the first of May last, at the rate of four hundred dollars a year. The plaintiff’s name nowhere appears in such leases, nor is it pretended they were taken in her husband’s name for her benefit, or in pursuance of any agreement between them. It is alleged that she…