Chrones v. Wade

This is an action of trespass and ejectment for the possession of a certain tenement held by defendant under an oral letting from week to week at a rent’of $13.50 payable weekly in advance. The plaintiffs based their right of action on the ground that the stipulated rent was due and in arrear for fifteen days and hence under general laws 1938, chapter 454, §1, they were entitled to recover possession. The case was tried before a justice of the superior court sitting without a jury, who found that defendant was not in arrear of rent as alleged. The plaintiffs have brought the case here on…