Sophie F. Bronowiski Mulligan Irrevocable Trust v. Bridges

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.” 1 The plaintiff, the Sophie F. Bronowiski Mulligan Irrevocable Trust, appeals from a Superior Court judgment in its favor for $1,600, plus interest, in an action for breach of a residential lease agreement. The plaintiffs complaint alleged that the defendant, Todd Arthur Bridges, a Brown University graduate student, breached his lease agreement by painting over expensive historical wallpaper inside the plaintiffs nineteenth century building on Benefit Street in Providence and by failing to pay the last month’s rent.…