Thayer v. Waples

The plaintiff leased from the defendant the store No. 47 Camp street for an auction mart, from first February to first September, 1870, at $100 per month, payable in advance. Failing to pay the rent for the month of April, the defendant instituted suit on the *503fourteenth of said month before a justice of the peace and caused the contents of the store to be provisionally seized, a keeper being put in charge of the premises. On the sixteenth, plaintiff (Thayer) answered, denying indebtedness to the defendant (Waples), and averring that if ■any rent be due, “the same is due to Mr. Conrad, the…