Mayor v. Duplessis

The plaintiffs claim several arrearages of an annuity, which they alledge, was constituted to them by the defendant, for the price of a lot of ground sold to him.

The defendant resists this claim, alledging that the arrearages, mentioned in the petition, are not those of an annuity, by him constituted to the plaintiffs, but those of a rent reserved on a lease, which he once owed to the plaintiffs, and which he paid as long as he possessed the premises, but of which he discharged himself, by an alienation of the lot, to one Thomas Bailey, under certain terms which were stipulated for, by the…