Legal Opinion
J. C. Penney Co. v. Schulte Real Estate Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 12, 1935PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
The plaintiff seeks by this suit rescission of a lease of real estate and further incidental relief. The defendant demurred to the bill for want of equity and loches. An interlocutory decree sustaining the demurrer on the ground that facts were not set forth in the bill entitling the plaintiff to relief and a final decree dismissing the bill were entered. The plaintiff appealed from both these decrees.
The allegations of the bill in substance are these: One Frizzell in December, 1927, owned real estate in Gardner. At that time the plaintiff employed one of its directors as its real estate…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Stewart v. FinkelstoneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
- Innerarity v. Merchants' National BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Little v. PhippsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Quinn v. BurtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Thomas v. BealsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Bowe v. Secretary of CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Levy v. BendetsonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1978
- Union Old Lowell National Bank v. PaineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Boston Five Cents Savings Bank v. BrooksMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Moseley v. Briggs Realty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
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