Mayflower Associates, Inc. v. Elliott

THORNAL,Justice.

Appellant, Mayflower Associates, Inc., was defendant in the Court below in a proceeding in chancery brought by the appellee, Henry Elliott, seeking the appointment of a 'receiver and termination of a ninety-nine year lease on"a hotel. From an order appointing a receiver and the final decree declaring the l’e'ase to be 'at an end/. Mayflower Associates, Inc. appeals.

By his complaint filed April 16, 1954, Elliott alleged that he was the lessor and Mayflower was the lessee under the lease in question. It was further alleged that lessee had breached the lease by its failure to pay…