Garland v. Gaines
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover rent, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Studley, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $230, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
It appears from the finding that the plaintiff leased to the defendant’s son, Thomas J. Gaines, Jr., who is alleged to have been at that time a minor, a one-third interest in certain rooms in New Haven, to be occupied by him with two other students from September 29th, 1898, to June 29th, 1899. Being unwilling to rent the rooms to the son without the guaranty of his father for the payment of the rent, the plaintiff, on the 15th of June, signed in duplicate a lease and sent the same to Thomas J. Gaines, Jr., to he executed by him and to have the guaranty at the foot of the lease signed by his…
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