Lyman v. Townsend

This is a suit on a contract of lease. The plaintiff alleges that he leased to the defendant a housé in New Orleans, on Customhouse street, for a term of five years from the first of December, 1866, at the rate of $200 per month, payable in advance; that the defendant has failed to pay the rent in accordance with the contract, and specifies certain sums due and to become due, for which he prays judgment. He seized provisonally the furniture in the house in virtue of his lien as lessor.

The deiendant avers that in conformity with her engagement she paid the rent at. the rate of $200 per mouth…