Taylor v. Goding

This is an action of contract on a written lease of a store, to recover rent for the last five months of the term. The answer sets up an oral agreement made by the parties before the execution of the lease, that if, during the term, the lessee should take a lease of another store of the lessor, and should vacate the store first leased, the lessor would thereupon surrender , all right under the original lease, and the lessee would be under no further liability thereon; that the lessee, relying upon the oral agreement and induced thereby, took a lease of another store of the plaintiff, and…