30 Mo. 258 | Mo. | 1860
delivered the opinion of the court.
The controversy seems to be abandoned as to half the rent claimed, as the plaintiff has not appealed from the judgment of the court below. The defendants were tenants under Cutter — who has assigned his claim to the rent to the plaintiff — when the deed was made by Cutter in 1854 to Page and Bacon. It is singular the defendants should be making a de-
None of the instructions asked by the defendants assumed the existence of the fact, that they had been notified to pay rent to Page and Bacon, or that Page and Bacon had required an attornment to them. Judging from the record, the defendants stand now as they did when they entered under Cutter. This is not a controversy between Cutter or his assignee on one side, and Page and Bacon on the other. Page and Bacon have done nothing showing that they claimed
Judgment affirmed; the other judges concurring.