Sherer-Gillett Co. v. Bennett

Plaintiff and defendant signed a document purporting on its face to be a lease of a store counter, upon which defendant (the purported lessee) paid the sum of $12 cash, and executed a note for $306, payable in installments of $17 each on the first of» every month for a period of 18 months. It was further stipulated that; if, at the end of said lease, defendant had fully performed its terms, that is, had paid the monthly installments, he should have, for the period of 30 days, the privilege of purchasing the counter for $10.

Thereafter, and before the counter had been delivered, circumstances-…