Kurland v. Massachusetts Amusement Corp.

The first action is in contract. The plaintiffs seek in the first count of the declaration to recover $10,000, the rent for April and May, 1936, of a theatre in Springfield, in accordance with a lease given on August 15, 1929, to the defendant’s assignor. They seek in the second count to recover $9,000 — the difference between the amount of rental fixed by the lease and the amount paid by the defendant during 1933 and 1934, at the rate as reduced by two written agreements, one for each of said years — on the ground, as the plaintiffs allege, that the defendant did not pay the reduced rental…