Epstein v. Gurney

On July 9, 1927, the plaintiff, the owner of an apartment building in Brookline, gave a lease of “the suite of rooms numbered two” in said building to the defendant’s testator, for a term of one year beginning September 1, 1927, and thereafter from year to year until one of the parties should give to the other party written notice to terminate on some August 31. No such notice was ever given, but the defendant’s testator died on July 28, 1940. On September 1, 1934, the rent was reduced to $100 a month by letters between the parties to the lease. In August, 1940, after the death of the…