Johnson v. Carter

The pertinent parts of the petition filed by the plaintiff in this case alleged in substance that she and her husband orally rented from defendant, W. B. Carter, a certain dwelling house in the city of Sioux City, Iowa; that the side walls of the basement in said house had been for several years cemented with a coat of cement or concrete about an inch thick behind which was a dirt bench or bank; that defendant had spread a coating of cement in and over cracks, crevices, and broken places in said side walls prior to the occupancy of said dwelling by plaintiff; that such repairs had been made…