Haley v. Boston Belting Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, by the executors of the will of Charles L. Haley, against the Boston Belting Company, John G. Tappan, the assignees in bankruptcy of said Tappan, Elisha S. Converse, the treasurer of the Boston Belting Company, William H. Furber, its manager and clerk, William Lowry, and Edward F. Lowry.
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Bill in equity, by the executors of the will of Charles L. Haley, against the Boston Belting Company, John G. Tappan, the assignees in bankruptcy of said Tappan, Elisha S. Converse, the treasurer of the Boston Belting Company, William H. Furber, its manager and clerk, William Lowry, and Edward F. Lowry. The bill alleged that, on December 8, 1871, Haley leased to Tappan, for the term of ten years from January 1, 1872, a certain building in Boston; and it sought to hold the corporation liable as an equitable assignee of the lease. The bill also sought from Converse and Furber discovery of the…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
Haley, in 1871, executed a lease of a building in Boston for ten years to John G. Tappan, who was then the general agent and treasurer of the Boston Belting Company, with authority to hire buildings for it. Tappan took the lease with the intention that the building should be occupied by the Boston Belting Company, and his agency and purpose were known to the lessor. The plaintiff seeks in this bill to charge the Boston Belting Company on the covenants of the lease, on the ground that it was the real or beneficial lessee, under obligation, which can be enforced either at law or in equity, to…
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