John F. Davis Co. v. Shepard Co.

This is a bill in equity for the removal of the respondent as trustee under a lease and for incidental relief. After a hearing in the superior court on bill, answer and proof, a final decree denying and dismissing the bill was entered, and from that decree the complainant has appealed.

The appeal raises the question whether parol evidence was admissible to explain the meaning of the word “fuel” in the third clause of the lease, and also whether the installation of a new master service panel was an improvement in the leased premises for which, under the seventeenth clause of the lease,…