Ryder v. Faxon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Tort, for the conversion of a wooden hotel building. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Wardwell, J., who found for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The first lease was made on March 1, 1883, for the term of three years from that date. At the beginning of the term the demised premises were a vacant parcel of land, upon which the lessee thereafter erected a two story hotel building. On March 1, 1884, the lease was cancelled, and a new lease made for the term of five years from that date. On February 26, 1886, the building, which was set on posts, was destroyed by fire. On March 1, 1886, the second lease was cancelled, and a new lease made for ten years from that date, after which a new building, upon the old foundations and having no…
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