Hildreth v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for the rent of a suite of rooms numbered 2 on the first floor of an apartment house known as the Wrexham, numbered 1382 on Beacon Street in Brookline, for the months from August, 1915, to February, 1916, inclusive, at $55 a month. Writ dated February 2, 1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Bell, J. On the day of the trial the defendant made an offer of judgment in the sum of $121.54. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Contract for the rent of a suite of rooms numbered 2 on the first floor of an apartment house known as the Wrexham, numbered 1382 on Beacon Street in Brookline, for the months from August, 1915, to February, 1916, inclusive, at $55 a month. Writ dated February 2, 1916. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Bell, J. On the day of the trial the defendant made an offer of judgment in the sum of $121.54. The evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the judge denied a motion of the defendant that a verdict be ordered in accordance with the offer of judgment, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
A lease by indenture, executed on September 10, 1913, contained an habendum clause and a covenant which respectively read as follows:
“To have and to hold the premises hereby demised unto the Lessee, for the term of one (1) year from the first day of October in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen until the first day of October in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen (if then terminated as hereinafter provided) and thereafter from year to year, until one of the parties hereto shall, on or before the first day of August in any year, give to the other party written notice of his intention to…
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