McCrory Stores Corp. v. S. M. Braunstein, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

This is a proceeding instituted in the Supreme Court, under the provisions of a statute passed in 1924, entitled “An act concerning declaratory judgments and decrees” (Pamph. L., p. 312), and referred b}' that tribunal to the Circuit Court of Atlantic county for hearing and determination. Its purpose is to have judicially declared the true contruction of a provision in a lease under which the McCrory Stores Corporation is occupying a store in Atlantic City belonging to the Braunstein company. The lease is for a term of twenty…