Weeks v. Wilhelm-Dexter Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the owner of a large building known as the Fort Hill Building, numbered from 142 to 146 inclusive, on High Street in Boston, against a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of paints, shellac and oils, which it had mixed and kept in the basement of the premises leased by it from the plaintiffs, for the alleged breach of a covenant in the lease from the plaintiffs to the defendant to remove all rubbish at the expiration of the lease and to yield up the…
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Contract by the owner of a large building known as the Fort Hill Building, numbered from 142 to 146 inclusive, on High Street in Boston, against a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of paints, shellac and oils, which it had mixed and kept in the basement of the premises leased by it from the plaintiffs, for the alleged breach of a covenant in the lease from the plaintiffs to the defendant to remove all rubbish at the expiration of the lease and to yield up the premises to the lessors “clean and in good repair, order and condition in all respects.” Writ in the Municipal Court of…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The demised premises were occupied and used by the defendant for the manufacture and sale of paints, shellac, oils and similar compounds, and the answer of the jury to the third question establishes the fact that the basement and ground floors were in the same general condition at the end as at the beginning of the term.
But in addition to the covenant to maintain “the said premises, including the plumbing, in such repair, order and condition as the same are in at the commencement of said term or may be put in during the continuance thereof,” the lessee further covenanted that it “will at the…
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