Diebold Safe & Lock Co. v. Morse
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on October 1, 1915, for specific performance of an alleged lease of real estate by delivery of the premises to the plaintiff for occupation. In the Superior Court the suit was heard by McLaughlin, J., who found and reported, among other facts, those stated in the opinion, and reserved the case for determination by this court upon the pleadings and his report.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
On or about August 1, 1915, the agents of the plaintiff entered into negotiations for the lease of the first floor of a building owned by the defendant, for the term of three years beginning September 1, 1915. The terms were agreed to, and *343duplicate indentures of lease were prepared in the defendant’s office. It was the intention of the parties that the lease was to be executed in duplicate, and it was a condition precedent to the creation of the leasehold that the lease should be executed by-lessor and lessee, and duplicates, so executed, mutually exchanged and delivered.
August 3, 1915,…
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