147 Mo. App. 667 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1910
An action on a covenant in a lease for taxes for the years 1906 and 1907, which the lessee and his assigns were hound by the covenant to pay. The defense is that defendant company is not in privity of estate with the original lessee and hence not hound; by the covenant. Henry A. Cunningham was the original lessorj Greo. M. Keeley the original lessee, and the premises are two three-story buildings in the city of St. Louis on Chestnut street. The term was for twenty years commencing March 18,1890, and expiring: