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Simons v. New Britain Trust Co.

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided October 5, 1907PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Writ oe error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Coats, J.; the court found nothing erroneous and rendered judgment in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.

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Writ oe error to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace in an action of summary process, brought to and tried by the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County, Coats, J.; the court found nothing erroneous and rendered judgment in favor of the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed. The New Britain Trust Company brought an action of summary process against Isadore Simons, its tenant, in which the expiration by lapse of time of the lease under which the latter held, and made more than a year before the commencement of the action, was, among other things, alleged. Simons thereupon…

1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.

The tenant, Simons, who was the'? defendant in an action of summary process- brought by his- landlord, the New Britain. Trust Company, sought to-defeat the latter’s recovery of possession of the leased premises, by imposing upon it the obligations of a lease for an unexpired terms of years, given, to Simons during his tenancy under a. prior letting, which prior letting- was- the only one which the Trust Company recognized. Such a long term lease,, or agreement therefor, made in October,-1906-, he set up in his answer^ and attempted, to establish by evidence. The evidence submitted rested…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
  2. Nichols v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1834
  3. Verzier v. ConvardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
  4. Andrew v. BabcockSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
  5. Eaton v. WhitakerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1846

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Anchorage-Hynning & Co., a District of Columbia Limited Partnership v. Thomas G. MoringielloCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
  2. Willow Funding Co., L.P. v. Grencom AssociatesConnecticut Appellate Court · 2001
  3. Harmonie Club, Inc. v. SmirnowSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1927
  4. Galvin v. SimonsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
  5. Custis v. Valley National Bank of PhoenixArizona Supreme Court · 1962

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