Brickett v. Wallace

The plaintiff sues for fourteen dollars and fifty-eight cents due him for rent. Before the police court the defendant orally denied the plaintiff’s right to maintain his action; and the case, being tried on that issue, resulted in a judgment of fourteen dollars for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed to the superior court, and there filed only a plea “ that before the plaintiff sued out his writ he tendered to the plaintiff the said sum of fourteen dollars and fifty-eight cents,” and that he had ‘‘ held himself in readiness at all times since said tender to pay ¿aid sum to the plaintiff,…