Legal Opinion
Davis & O'Connor Co. v. Shell Oil Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 4, 1942PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
The plaintiff is the admitted owner of a parcel of real estate in Boston. Allegations of its bill are that it leased the premises to the defendant and that, as a part of the same transaction, the defendant sublet them to the plaintiff; that the sublease contains “a covenant . . . against nonpayment of . . . rent” and a provision that upon failure to pay, the defendant is entitled to terminate the entire estate of the plaintiff in said sublease; that the plaintiff owes the defendant for rent and that the latter has declared the sublease terminated for alleged nonpayment of rent. There is a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Potier v. A. W. Perry, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Gorey v. GuarenteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Morin v. ClarkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Gordon v. RichardsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Markey v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Lucier v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Thayer Co. v. BinnallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
- MacKey v. Rootes Motors Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Howard D. Johnson Co. v. MadiganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
- St. George's Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church v. Primitive Methodist Church of AmericaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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