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PHILEMON WUK.IIT, et al. Appellants ; AND JONATHAN ALGER, Respondent. RESPONDENTS CASE. THIS was an Action infititiited in the Court of King's Bench, for the District of Montreal, bythi- Respondent, against the Appellants, for a Breach of Covenant entered into by the Appellants and Respondent on the I3th day of February, 1818, by which the said contracting parties stipulated and agreed upon as follows, to-wit : " That " they the Appellants should and would, on or hefoie the l,")tli day of August, 1818, arant <' unto the said Alger, the Respondent, a good and sulficiont Lease of a certain building or « tenement called ' the Trip Hammer Shop; with all the tools, app;iratus, and ap()urtenan. "cesthereunt.) belonging; situated, standing, and being on the Grand Chaudieie Falls, in "the Township of Hull, to hold the same from the siiid day until the full end and term of " one year next ensuin'r, to h;»ve and to hold the same for and during the aforesaid term of « time, free of rent or diarge whatever, with the appurtenances, at tire expinuion of which " period the said Alger (the Respondoiit) wai to restore said building unto the Appellants, « with a" the tools, implements, and apparatus thereto belonging, in the same conditii>n in " which he received theiM, making a proper ai\d suitable allowance for the natural decay, " wear and tare of the said articles ; and it wai also agreed that the said Respondent was «« to have the use and benefit ol the Apprentices during the said time, he providing then « with board ; and the said Appi'llants firtlier bound themselves to provide and ftinnsli th " said Respondent with any quantity of iron and steel Ik- might require to niaiui[;Ktu " ring the aforesaid term of time ; and for such advinct-s us they thu Appellants sliou! em the turo, du- -..,„, J kppellaiils sliould iu;i!v3 " to the said Respondent, they the Appellauis b )un(i ihem^selves and agreed to receive from " the Respopdent scythes, axes, hoes, and all oili-r u^^^tui iuiDlement, and wnrkuiausliip to " hquid.ate the same, at the same jiric' t'.u- wlii-ii he .oid.l vend at the River V f/iwrence, " or elsewhere ; and should llu' ^.uid II.' .|i()u.1 ■ In support of the Respondent's Action, he filed certain exliil)iis, to wit : Jst—Tlie origii.alagieemei.t, dated Ijih February, ISiS. 2nd— Protest by Respondent against Appellant.*, 'Jlth S-.pteudier, It>Ui. Srd — A letter from Respondent to Appellants. /Ith— An agreement and discharge of the l^tli February, IS 18. 5th — A plan of the Trip Hammer. To this action the AppMlants pleaded first that all the allegati^ ns wcit false, and seeondk tlont»Jri