Rome v. Johnson

These are six actions of contract to recover rent under two written leases of adjoining portions of the top floor of a building in Boston. One of the leases, hereafter referred to as the first lease, is dated November 17, 1926, and the other, hereafter referred to as the second lease, is dated January 20, 1927. The amended answers plead, among other • things, that the leased premises were surrendered by the defendant, thereby extinguishing any liability of the defendant to pay rent. The answers further plead that the defendant was evicted from the premises by the failure of the plaintiff to…