Lott v. Chaffee

This action of assumpsit is before the court on plaintiffs’ exceptions to the ruling of a justice of the Superior Court directing a verdict for the defendant at the close of the plaintiffs’ testimony and denying their motion for a directed verdict.

The action is brought to recover rent for the use and occupation of an apartment, situated in Columbus, Ohio. Plaintiffs introduced in evidence an unsealed lease signed by them and the defendant, by which they leased to him the apartment for one year from the first day of September 1920, for $1,020, payable $85 on the first day of each month in…