City Coal Co. v. Marcus
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of Error to reverse a judgment of the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J., in favor of the landlords in an action of summary process, brought by the tenant, the present plaintiff in error, to the Supreme Court of Errors at its October Term in Hartford, 1920. On January 1st, 1906, the heirs at law of Louis B. Plimpton, deceased, leased to G. U. Kierstead and R. Hackewessel, partners in business under the trade name of the City Coal Company (and apparently since…
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Writ of Error to reverse a judgment of the City Court of Hartford, Bullard, J., in favor of the landlords in an action of summary process, brought by the tenant, the present plaintiff in error, to the Supreme Court of Errors at its October Term in Hartford, 1920. On January 1st, 1906, the heirs at law of Louis B. Plimpton, deceased, leased to G. U. Kierstead and R. Hackewessel, partners in business under the trade name of the City Coal Company (and apparently since incorporated under that name), certain real property in the city of Hartford forming the subject-matter of the present…
1Opinion of the CourtKeeler, J.
Based upon the foregoing assignments of error, the plaintiff in error in this court claims that the written lease in question was in fact a lease for twenty years if the lessee saw fit to so consider it. Or, if this claim be untenable, that a renewal was effected by the acts of the parties for a second period of ten years, and that the original written lease complied with the requirements of the statute of frauds. Or, if the two claims last mentioned are untenable, that a tenancy from year to year came into being by operation of law, and that the holding over by the lessee into the month of…
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- Frank Miller & Co. v. LampsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
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