Oak Island Hotel Co. v. Oak Island Grove Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for breach of the covenants in a lease from the defendant to the plaintiff of certain premises in Revere. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action for the breach of covenants in a lease made by the defendant to the plaintiff. The case is here on two exceptions to the exclusion of evidence. The first concerned the alleged interference by the defendant with the granting of a grove and victualler’s license to the plaintiff. There seems to have been a misunderstanding between the court and the plaintiff’s counsel as to certain questions, the court taking them as 'an inquiry what a conversation meant, and excluding that. The questions as reported seem to have been intended simply to call for the words spoken; but as the…
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