Dodd v. Mitchell

Bicknell, C. C.

This was an action to recover rent due upon a written lease of land. The appellee Reuben Mitchell as lessor brought the suit against John Dodd and George W. Jenkins as lessees, and Joseph Mitchell and Nicholas Bailey as their sureties.

Reuben Mitchell obtained a judgment below and assigned it to Daniel Hendrickson; the defendants below appealed and made Hendrickson a party to the appeal.

The complaint was in two paragraphs, the second paragraph was withdrawn ; motions by appellants to strike out parts of the first paragraph were overruled ; a demurrer by the appellants to the…