Jones v. Parker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two BILLS in EQUITY, filed June 2, 1894, to enforce specific performance of covenants in leases. The first bill alleged that, by an indenture dated September 1, 1893, the defendant Parker leased to the plaintiff a portion of the basement in a building to be erected on the corner of Washington Street and Spring Lane in the city of Boston, and covenanted to deliver possession of the same to the plaintiff upon completion of the building, and thereafter, during the term of the…
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Two BILLS in EQUITY, filed June 2, 1894, to enforce specific performance of covenants in leases. The first bill alleged that, by an indenture dated September 1, 1893, the defendant Parker leased to the plaintiff a portion of the basement in a building to be erected on the corner of Washington Street and Spring Lane in the city of Boston, and covenanted to deliver possession of the same to the plaintiff upon completion of the building, and thereafter, during the term of the lease, reasonably to heat and light the demised premises; that the occupancy of the demised premises by the plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The case of Jones v. Parker is a bill in equity brought by a lessee upon a lease purporting to begin on September 1, 1893, and to demise part of a basement in a building not yet erected. The lessor “ covenants to deliver possession of the same to the lessee upon completion of said building, and thereafter, during the term of this lease, reasonably to heat and light the demised premises.” It is alleged that the building has been completed, but that the defendants refuse to complete the premises with apparatus sufficient to heat and light the same, and to deliver the same to the plaintiff. It…
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