Mossy v. Mead
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. On the first day of January, 1827, the plaintiff leased a house to Hudson for one year, at one hundred dollars per month.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. On the first day of January, 1827, the plaintiff leased a house to Hudson for one year, at one hundred dollars per month. The lease contained this clause: “It is likewise agreed that should Hudson require it, he will have the privi-ledge of remaining in the said house for the space of seven years longer, being from the first day of January, 1828, to the first day of January, 1835, he paying the same rent, say one hundred dollars per month." On the first day of March, 1828, the following endorsement was made upon the lease: "I hereby…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiff claims house rent for five months,due on the *160first of January, 1830, at one hundred and twenty-five dol- , , lars per month.
The defendant admits five months are due, but denies that they are due at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and avers, the rent is at one hundred dollars only, therefore he tenders five hundred dollars, which he avers he has been ever ready to pay. He claims, as assignee of Hudson, a lessee of the plaintiff, for the year 1827, with the faculty in the lessee, to keep the house till the year 1835.
There was judgment for the plaintiff, and the…
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