Thorup v. Hodges

Defendant Lauren Hodges appeals from a summary process judgment awarding possession of certain residential premises to plaintiff Mikkel Thorup. We affirm.

Thorup owns and until 2013 lived in a small residence in Shutesbury. In that year Thorup relocated to and took up a teaching position in Denmark, his Shutesbury home remaining essentially vacant until early 2014.2 In March, 2014, while temporarily in New York, Thorup met Hodges and the two "very quickly [became] very good friends." Hodges, an actor, told Thorup "she wanted to switch into screenplays, and she wanted a place to write" for a…