19 Mo. 501 | Mo. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
The only question is, whether Goode, as the landlord, was entitled to claim from Leach, the tenant, the amount of taxes assessed upon the improvements, which the answer alleges were erected by Leach, and were his property. The value of the improvements was claimed by Leach, and was the subject for which he brought this suit. The lease which contained the contract by Goode to pay for the improvements, appears by the answer to be a second lease for the same premises, as the answer alleges that, at and after its execution, Leach was the owner of the improvements upon the lot, which he had erected thereon, under a former lease, This second lease contained no stipulation about taxes.