S. S. Kresge Co. v. Somerville Merchants Bldg., Inc.

FORD, District Judge.

This is an action under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2201 for a declaration of the legal rights of the parties under a lease of real estate. Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, the plaintiff being a Michigan corporation and both defendants Massachusetts corporations, and on the presence of an amount in controversy in excess of $3,000.

The plaintiff S. S. Kresge Company is the lessee, under a lease dated August 13, 1928, of certain real estate in Somerville, Massachusetts. The defendant Somerville Merchants Building, Inc., was the original lessor and the defendant Union…