Hull v. Newhall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, with a declaration as amended for $393.57 upon an account annexed for rent of a suite in Kirkland Court, Cambridge, for the months of February to July, inclusive, and seven tenths of the month of August, 1917, at $55.75 per month, with interest. Writ dated March 18, 1918. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Morton, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Contract, with a declaration as amended for $393.57 upon an account annexed for rent of a suite in Kirkland Court, Cambridge, for the months of February to July, inclusive, and seven tenths of the month of August, 1917, at $55.75 per month, with interest. Writ dated March 18, 1918. In the Superior Court, the action was tried before Morton, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the judge denied a motion by the defendant that a verdict be ordered in his favor, ordered a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum of $294.91, and reported the action to this…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
At the close of the plaintiffs’ case the defendant, requested the presiding judge of the Superior Court, sitting with a jury, to rule that the plaintiffs had not established their cause of action. The judge declined so to do and ordered a verdict for the plaintiffs, it being agreed by the parties that he should report the case for the determination of the Supreme Judicial Court and that if he were right in so ordering a verdict, judgment was to be entered for the plaintiffs in the sum of $294.91, the amount of the verdict; but that, if he were wrong, judgment was to be entered for the…
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