Pulsifer v. Walker

I. The petition in this case is properly brought under the declaratory judgments act (Laws of 1929, c. 86). The plaintiffs’ claim of “a present right to lease said premises at the expiration of said present lease” and the adverse claim of the defendants that they are entitled to a renewal of the present lease exemplify one of the normal situations which the act was designed to cover. The effect of the statute in this case is “to enable the normal defendant to institute the proceedings.” Faulkner v. Keene, ante, 147, 155.

II. The defendants assert that the plaintiffs have no “legal right to…