Tulane University v. O'Connor
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the Tulane University of Louisiana, being the State university of Louisiana created and existing under certain statutes of that State, which under the residuary clause in the will of one Alexander C. Hutchinson, who died in December, 1902, had acquired the property known as the Hotel Plaza on Columbus Avenue in Boston, to recover rent due and unpaid under a lease to the defendant O’Connor, against that defendant as lessee, and against the other defendants as…
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Contract by the Tulane University of Louisiana, being the State university of Louisiana created and existing under certain statutes of that State, which under the residuary clause in the will of one Alexander C. Hutchinson, who died in December, 1902, had acquired the property known as the Hotel Plaza on Columbus Avenue in Boston, to recover rent due and unpaid under a lease to the defendant O’Connor, against that defendant as lessee, and against the other defendants as guarantors of the performance of the covenants of the lease. Writ in the Supreme Judicial Court dated July 12, 1904. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an action against the guarantors of a lease made by the plaintiff to one O’Connor of the Hotel Plaza in Boston to recover a month’s rent. O’Connor, the lessee, was a defendant, but before opening the case to the jury the plaintiff discontinued as to him, and also as to one other defendant. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, and the case is here on exceptions by the remaining defendants to certain rulings made by the court at the close of the evidence and to the refusal of the court to give certain rulings requested by them.
The principal contention of the defendants is that after…
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