Miller v. Benton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for a breach of contract by the defendants as iessees for a term of years of certain rooms in a building belonging to tbe plaintiff, in refusing to re-occupy and pay rent for the same after they had been rendered untenantable by fire and had been repaired by the plaintiff within the term ; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
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Action for a breach of contract by the defendants as iessees for a term of years of certain rooms in a building belonging to tbe plaintiff, in refusing to re-occupy and pay rent for the same after they had been rendered untenantable by fire and had been repaired by the plaintiff within the term ; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. A demurrer to the complaint was overruled by Beardsley, <7., and at a later term the case ivas tried to the court before Torrance, J. The following facts were found by the court: The plaintiff, on the 3d day of July, 1884, leased to the defendants by…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The defendants hired of the plaintiff certain rooms for manufacturing purposes in a building owned by him, for a term beginning July 1st, 1884, and ending May 1st, 1887, at an agreed monthly rent, and entered into the occupancy of the leased premises. In October, 1884, the building was so damaged by fire that the rooms in question *543became untenantable, and the defendants were compelled to seek new quarters for the prosecution of their business, an immediate continuance of which was of great importance to them. The plaintiff, in January, 1885, began to repair the building, and on the 14th day…
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