Bickford v. Dillon

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a decree dismissing a bill in which he sought specific performance of a covenant to renew a lease.

The plaintiff and his partner Rubin1 on September 2, 1939, executed a lease by which they became the lessees of a building in Holyoke owned by James B. Dillon. The lease,2 which ran for a term of five years commencing on *83October 15, 1939, contained a clause that "the lessees . . . shall have the option of a renewal of this lease for the further term of five (5) years, upon the expiration hereof, upon the same terms and conditions, provided the lessees, at…