Legal Opinion
Swartz v. Brockton Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 28, 1945PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The plaintiff’s husband, Jacob Swartz, owed the defendant $26 for rent of a tenement from March 15 to April 15, 1940. The defendant claimed that sum and no more and on January 7, 1941, instructed its attorney in writing to collect that sum, by action if necessary. The plaintiff’s husband called on the attorney, and offered to pay that sum in instalments, but the attorney insisted upon full payment of that sum at once. Nothing was paid.
On January 20, 1941, the attorney brought a writ, with an ad damnum of $110, and drew a declaration for three months’ rent at $26 a month, adding to the rent…
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