Connecticut Land & Mortgage Co. v. Lesser

The plaintiff lessee and defendant lessors have joined in a request for a construction of certain provisions of a lease executed by them. The question concerns the return of a deposit made to secure the obligations of the plaintiff under the lease. The facts were stipulated.

On April 19, 1945, the plaintiff leased from the defendants certain property on Main Street in Bridgeport for the term of forty years with the privilege of two twelve-year renewals. The two paragraphs of the lease which gave rise to the dispute are set forth in the footnote. 1 The first laid down the conditions under which…