Penn v. Kearny

This suit is brought to tecover $6,184 98 for rent of á warehouse and adjacent lots, let by plaintiff to. Alfred Kearny, the obligations of which hiring, it is alleged, were assumed by the defendants as a commercial firm. The rent is claimed from July 1,1861, to November 1, 1862. The defendants gave their notes,'in' their firm name,-for a portion of the rent up to November 1, 1861, and four of these re.nt notes, amounting, with costs of protest, to §1,489 98, form part of the sum sued for. The balance, $4,700, is for rent from November 1,1861, to November 1,1862.

The defendants, admitting the'…