Epstein v. Dunbar
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 29, 1913, against the defendants Dunbar and Hammond as the owners, as trustees, of a building on the corner of Essex Street and Harrison Avenue in Boston, and as the lessors to the plaintiff of all the second floor of that building, and against the defendant Wirth as the lessee of the whole of the adjoining building numbered 37 on Essex Street, praying that the defendants Dunbar and Hammond might be ordered to restore…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 29, 1913, against the defendants Dunbar and Hammond as the owners, as trustees, of a building on the corner of Essex Street and Harrison Avenue in Boston, and as the lessors to the plaintiff of all the second floor of that building, and against the defendant Wirth as the lessee of the whole of the adjoining building numbered 37 on Essex Street, praying that the defendants Dunbar and Hammond might be ordered to restore the stairway which formerly connected the plaintiff’s premises with the entrance numbered 41 on Essex Street and to…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
On April 16, 1908, the plaintiff as lessee and the defendants Dunbar and Hammond as lessors executed a lease for the term of three years of “all the second floor of the building at the corner of Essex Street and Harrison Avenue in the city of Boston, numbered 41 Essex Street, except the room now occupied by M. Wade.” At that time the main entrance to the demised premises was numbered 41 on Essex Street, although there was a rear entrance on Harrison Avenue, narrow and inferior compared with the other, used chiefly but not exclusively for the receipt and delivery of merchandise. The building…
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