Connors v. Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ of error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Coats, J.; judgment for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
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Writ of error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Coats, J.; judgment for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff. The summary process complaint presented to the justice of the peace and dated February 2d, 1906, alleged that on January 5th, 1901, the defendants in error gave to a partnership of which the plaintiff in error was a member a written lease of certain premises, which lease was set out at length in the complaint. By the terms of this lease it appeared that it was…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The only error imputed to the justice is that he overruled the demurrer to the complaint. Save as a question of pleading is incidentally raised by the plaintiff in error, the demurrer presents but two questions, and those are questions whose answers are to be found in the construction to be given to the provisions of the lease.
The complaint alleges that the lease expired and terminated by lapse of time on February 1st, 1906. The correctness of this material averment depends, as the parties agree, upon the interpretation to be given to that portion of the language of the lease which prescribes…
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