132 Wis. 620 | Wis. | 1907
The case presents no facts showing a modification of the lease prior to the letter of March 9, 1905. Appellant claims in substance that the transaction between the parties whereby plaintiff credited defendant with $25
This also negatives the contention that plaintiff should not be permitted to enforce his claim because defendant, in reliance on such cancellation of the lease, vacated the premises and became obligated for the rent of another building after April 30,1905. It does not appear that between March 9 and March 16, 1905, defendant had become obligated for the rent of another building. The facts show that he was released from whatever obligation he had assumed before the 16th of March, the date of his letter to plaintiff declaring he
It is urged that there is no proof tending to show that defendant received this letter. The record shows that the court and the defendant’s counsel, in propounding questions to him, assumed that he had received this letter of plaintiff’s, before March 21, 1905, when he wrote plaintiff on the subr ject, and in his answers to such questions, he assented to the correctness of this assumption. Thereafter he had no right to act on the assumption that the lease had been canceled.
We find no error in the record, and the judgment must stand.
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.