Westland Housing Corp. v. Dusseau

This was an action on an account annexed to recover rent of premises occupied under a written lease. The defendant’s answer was a general denial, payment, and an allegation that the plaintiff terminated the lease by a written notice to vacate the premises.

It was not disputed that the defendant signed a lease of the premises and occupied them up to May 24, 1938; that the rental of $45.00 per month was paid by the defendant through April 1938, and that on May 10,1938, the rent payable May 1, 1938, in advance, not being paid, the defendant gave the plaintiff a fourteen days’ notice to quit for…