Aste v. Putnam's Hotel Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, with a declaration as amended setting forth an alleged unlawful entry by the defendant upon premises occupied by the plaintiff as a tenant at 282 and 286 Huntington Avenue in Boston, and a conversion by the defendant to its own use of personal property of the plaintiff thereon.
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Tort, with a declaration as amended setting forth an alleged unlawful entry by the defendant upon premises occupied by the plaintiff as a tenant at 282 and 286 Huntington Avenue in Boston, and a conversion by the defendant to its own use of personal property of the plaintiff thereon. Writ dated May 31, 1921. Also, an action of Contract for violation by the defendant of alleged rights of the defendant to quiet enjoyment of the premises above described, and for damages resulting from an ouster therefrom. Writ dated May 31, 1921. In the Superior Court the actions were tried together before King,…
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
The plaintiff brought two actions, and obtained a verdict in each. One was in tort, for the alleged conversion of "certain restaurant fixtures and furnishings, the property of the plaintiff. The defendant’s only exception in that case was to the refusal of the trial judge to give a.certain requested ruling; and this was waived at the argument. The second action was in contract, for violation of the plaintiff’s rights to quiet enjoyment of, and an alleged ouster from, certain premises; the plaintiff claiming as assignee of a certain lease, according to the first count, and by virtue of some…
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