76 Iowa 126 | Iowa | 1888
— John Hartley was the original lessee of the lot, and the term was for five years ; but before the expiration of the term the parties contracted for an extension of five years. Under that contract the term would have expired on the first of April, 1885, and by it Hartley consented to pay the taxes assessed against the lot for the years 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884. After the contract of extension was entered into, the lease was assigned by Hartley to defendant, and .thereafter he and plaintiff’s assignor, who had become the owner of the lot, entered into an agreement for a further extension to April 1, 1890, by which the defendant covenanted to' pay all taxes assessed against the lot during the term thus created. In October, 1882, defendant sold the building situated on the lot, and the business he had carried on there, to one J. R. Chandler, and on the sixth of that month plaintiff’s assignor executed to Chandler a lease of the premises for a term of eight years ; and on the twelfth of the same month he and defendant signed a contract for the termination of the former lease and the several contracts of extension
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