Decker v. Hartshorne

*88The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, J.

This is an action brought to recover rent for certain premises, alleged to have accrued between February 3d, 1893, and April '3d, 1894, at the rate of $65 per month. The case was originally tried at the Camden Circuit and a verdict had for the defendant, based upon the theory that there had been a surrender of the premises by act and operation of law, resulting from the sale, by the defendant, of his business to the American Type Founders Company, prior to the date first above set out, and the immediate turning over of the demised premises…