Brewster v. DeFremery

By the Court, Sawyer, J.:

The defendants were the owners in fee of a brick house, and the lot on which it stood, in San Francisco, called the “ Sumner Street House.” The deceased was in the occupation of said “ Sumner Street House,” as the tenant of defendants on a letting from month to month, at a monthly rent payable monthly in advance. Ho covenants are *345averred, on the part of the defendants, to keep the premises in repair, or in a habitable condition, and, for the purposes of the decision, it must be assumed that there were none. While the deceased was thus in the occupancy of the premises,…