Stagg v. Eureka Tanning & Currying Co.

This action was brought by the plaintiff in the St. Louis Circuit Court against the defendant to recover the amount of $2,086.66, on an account for rent alleged to be due from the defendant to one John How, and which had on the 9th day of August, 1869, been-assigned and transferred in writing to the plaintiff. _ "

There is no questiqn made on the pleadings; the petition being in the usual form, setting out the premises leased. The defendant by its answer denies its indebtedness to plaintiff, and for further answer states, that on the 8th day of May, 1861, *318the said John How did, by his warranty…