Legal Opinion
Luce v. Maine Fidelity Life Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 2, 1974PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
POMEROY, Justice.
In calculating damages for breach of an agreement to lease several rooms designed to be used in conjunction with each other, is it an error of law to base the award on an appraisal of fair rental value arrived at by adding the estimated rental value of each room when rented separately ?
The issue before us on defendant-lessee’s appeal from a judgment entered against it in Superior Court may be so stated.
We sustain the appeal.
We hold that within the factual framework here before us it was error not to compute the fair rental value of the leased premises as a single unit for the…
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