Mississippi Supreme Court March 15, 1893 (Paxton v. Kennedy)

Cooper, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, being indebted to appellant several hundred dollars, leased from him for a term of years a tract of land; at a fixed rent of one hundred dollars per annum, and, at the same time and by the same writing, promised to pay to appellant, in five equal annual payments, the sum of his past indebtedness as rent, and also agreed to execute his