Blake v. Dick
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from First Judicial District, Lewis and Clarice Cownty. Action for rent. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff by Buck, J. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion: Blake sued Dick for one hundred and twenty dollars, rent due by Dick for certain premises, for the months of October, November, and December, 1891, under the terms of a lease made April 16,1891, wherein Blake leased a certain dwelling-house in the city of Helena to Dick, for one year…
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Appeal from First Judicial District, Lewis and Clarice Cownty. Action for rent. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff by Buck, J. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion: Blake sued Dick for one hundred and twenty dollars, rent due by Dick for certain premises, for the months of October, November, and December, 1891, under the terms of a lease made April 16,1891, wherein Blake leased a certain dwelling-house in the city of Helena to Dick, for one year from May 1, 1891, at a rental of forty dollars per month, payable in advance. There were no covenants of any kind…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
— The lease between Blake and Dick was the ordinary contract between landlord and tenant; there was therefore no implied warranty on the part of Blake that the dwelling-house leased was in tenantable condition, or would be kept in such condition; nor at the time of the original contract between the parties was there any obligation on Blake’s part to make any repairs of the cellar or ground. These rules of law are too well settled to require a citation of authorities to support them. (Bowe v. Hunking, 135 Mass. 383, and cases cited.)
Defendant, in his answer, having admitted the execution of…
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