Case v. Minot
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed on August 16, 1892, by the plaintiffs as lessees, to restrain and enjoin the defendants, their landlords, from disturbing them or suffering them to be disturbed in the quiet enjoyment of the demised premises. The plaintiffs were copartners, doing business under the name of Case, Dudley, and Battelle. The defendants William Minot, Jr., and four others, were the trustees of the Boston Real Estate Trust, of which the said Minot was the actuary.
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Bill in equity, filed on August 16, 1892, by the plaintiffs as lessees, to restrain and enjoin the defendants, their landlords, from disturbing them or suffering them to be disturbed in the quiet enjoyment of the demised premises. The plaintiffs were copartners, doing business under the name of Case, Dudley, and Battelle. The defendants William Minot, Jr., and four others, were the trustees of the Boston Real Estate Trust, of which the said Minot was the actuary. The bill prayed that an injunction might be issued restraining the defendants from further causing, making, permitting, or…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The court ruled that on the pleadings and facts reported the plaintiffs were not entitled to any relief, either by way of injunction or damages, against the defendants, and therefore dismissed the bill. The particular ground is not stated, but from the terms of the report and the course of the argument we are led to infer that it was thought that the plaintiffs should have sought their remedy against the Jordans alone, through whose immediate agency the acts complained of.were done, and that the present defendants are not responsible therefor. However, we have to consider the whole case.
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