Glen v. O'Leary

In response to the defendant-tenant’s failure to vacate after a thirty-day notice to quit for violations of lease provisions, the plaintiff-landlord instituted this summary process action. After a jury-waived trial, judgment was entered in favor of the landlord. The tenant has appealed, primarily on the basis that the trial judge relied on allegedly improper hearsay evidence. We conclude that the trial court based its judgment on properly admitted evidence that was sufficient to warrant its judgment.

The trial judge’s findings, supplemented with consistent facts from the transcript, indicate…