Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Co. v. Williams

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

There are here presented an appeal and a cross-appeal from the decree construing the obligations of a lease with respect to rent, and refusing a forfeiture of the lease.

The Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company and the Emery Bird Thayer Realty Company were plaintiffs below, while Moses Williams, William Minot, Edwin D. Brooks and William B. Baker, Trustees of Boston Ground Rent Trust, were defendants. The defendants are trustees of the Boston Ground Rent Trust, a common-law or Massachusetts trust, and are owners of the property involved. The original owner of the building…