Cleborne v. Totten

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

An appeal in a suit relating to the specific performance of a contract.

In the lower court the appellee as plaintiff sought a decree against appellant as defendant for the specific performance of an alleged contract between the parties, whereby, as alleged, the plaintiff had leased to the defendant certain real estate situate in the city of Washington, D. C., for the term of three years at a stipulated rental, which contract it was alleged defendant had failed to perform, and also praying for a decree against the defendant as lessee for the amount of rent due and to…