Visnick v. Hawley

The defendant Rockport Schooner Company, Inc., as landlord, commenced an action for possession against the plaintiff Rockport Whale Watch, Inc., as tenant, based upon the latter’s nonpayment of rent under a commercial lease.4 A judgment entered in the tenant’s favor in the District Court, and the landlord appealed.5 While that appeal was pending, the plaintiffs’ complaint in the present action was tried in the Superior Court, and a jury returned a verdict in the plaintiffs’ favor on their claim that the landlord had breached its obligations under the lease by interfering with the tenant’s…