Washington Savings Inst. v. Peikes

SULLIVAN, J. (Jones, P. J., and Sullivan, J.)

This is an action in contract for rent of three months for the premises at 143 Grove Street, Lowell, at forty dollars per month, amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars against the defendant, a tenant at will. On June 7, 1940, a decree nisi of divorce was entered as between the defendant and his wife; that on that day the defendant telephoned the plaintiff through one of its female clerks that he would no longer be responsible for the rent after June 15, 1940, (upon which day he made his last payment by his usual check); that said clerk…