11 Everett Street Realty Trust v. Hynes

This is a Dist/Mun. Cts. E.AD.A, Rule 8C, appeal by the defendant-tenant of a summary process judgment in favor of the plaintiff-landlord for possession and unpaid rent The principal argument presented by the defendant is that the fourteen day notice to quit for non-payment of rent issued by the landlord was ineffective to terminate his tenancy at will because the unpaid rent in question was a rent increase to which the defendant had never agreed.

The record indicates that defendant Joseph Hynes, Jr. (the “Tenant”) was a tenant at will of an apartment at 11 Everett Street, Cambridge which was…