Ellis v. Brenner

The primary question tendered in this case is the right of the plaintiff, the lessee of the defendants, to recover from them the amount necessarily expended by him to install a new electrical system in the leased premise to replace the old and antiquated one that had almost entirely ceased to function.

Defendants resist the suit mainly upon the ground that they were not notified of the necessity to have the new system installed and that, as a condition precedent to their liability for the expense of the new work, they should have had opportunity to have the work done themselves, which…