Case No. 2,031.

BROWN v. TONKIN.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 85.]⁴

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

April Term, 1802.

LANDLORD AND TENANT—LEASE—VALIDITY.

A stamp is not necessary to an acknowledgment of having hired a house.

Debt, for rent. An acknowledgment, signed by the defendant, that he bad hired the house for six months, at $100 per annum, payable quarterly, was offered in evidence.

Mr. Peacock, for defendant, objected because the paper was not stamped.

THE COURT adjudged the stamp to be unnecessary.

⁴ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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