Guarente v. Waldorf System, Inc.

The plaintiff had a verdict in this action for damages for breach of the lessee’s covenants in a lease of premises in Charlestown for use as a restaurant and lunch room for one year beginning June 1, 1955. The case was submitted to the jury solely on the issue of a breach of the covenant to redeliver the premises in reasonably clean and tenantable condition.1

1. The defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was properly denied. The defendant stands on the provision in the lease2 which states that no default “shall be deemed to have occurred or constitute a basis of forfeiture of this lease”…