Callahan v. Goldman

The plaintiff in this action was the lessee of the basement in Southwick block in the city of Lynn, under a lease for three years, from the then owner, dated June 1, 1907. The defendant succeeded to the reversion by force of a deed dated July 8, 1907. Under an earlier lease the plaintiff had installed in the basement four bowling alleys (which were his property), and the 1907 lease provided "that there shall be no forfeiture or breach of this lease for less than three months arrears of rent and then only on thirty days notice in writing to the lessee and mortgage[e] declaring a forfeiture and…