Farnsworth v. Harris

HIGGINS, Judge.

Plaintiff sued defendant on a written contract of lease to recover the cost and expense of repairing a pile driver said to have amounted to the sum of $953.24.

The petition alleged that under the provisions of the agreement defendant was obligated, as lessee, to maintain the pile driver in good condition and to return it to the plaintiff, as lessor, in the same condition as when received, reasonable wear and tear only excepted; that at the time the pile driver was delivered to the defendant it was in first-class condition, and, after being used by him for approximately four…