Leighton v. Ziminsky

This is an action for rent under a written lease and for an attorney’s fee as therein provided in the event of suit for overdue rent.

The facts are not in dispute. The defendant executed, as tenant, a lease from M.B.S. Corporation, as landlord, of an apartment in a building in Lowell, Massachusetts “for six months beginning January 25,1964” at a rental of $105.00 per month. There was a provision that:

“This lease shall automatically renew and continue thereafter from month to month until either party shall give written notice on or before the first day of July, 1964 terminating this lease as of…