Dodge

The plaintiff, Dodge, executed a lease of a rooming-house property to one Plevros. The lessee was not privileged to assign without lessor’s written consent. An agreement was made whereby plaintiff consented to an assignment negotiated by Plevros to the defendants, Chas. D. Chapman and Anna E. Chapman, husband and wife, on condition that the Chapmans furnish a bond in the penal sum of three thousand dollars for their faithful performance of the conditions of the lease. The Chapmans furnished such bond, with themselves as principals, and the defendants, J. W. Chapman and W. D. Altenburg, as sureties. The assignment was made by the original lessee, and accepted by the assignees; and the lessor, plaintiff here, indorsed on the lease his written consent to the assignment. The lease was for a term of several years, and the stipulated rent for the period covered by this action was $485.75 per month, payable in advance. The rent payments were kept up for a considerable time, but ultimately became in arrears in the sum of $1,863, whereupon the lessor, Dodge, brought this action against the Chapmans, assignees under the lease, and J. W. Chapman and W. L. Altenberg, sureties on the bond. The…