Slavin v. Rent Control Board of Brookline

This is a judicial review of a judge’s reversal of an order by the defendant, Brookline Rent Control Board (“the Board”) denying a Certificate of Eviction to the plaintiff, Bessie Slavin d/b/a Summit Realty Trust, with regard to the premises known as apartment 8A, 9 Summit Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts.

The record’ discloses that on December 3, 1985, the plaintiff made an application for a Certificate of Eviction as to one Donald Wiener, a tenant at the subject premises, on the grounds that the said tenant had violated an obligation or covenant of his tenancy (other than the obligation to…