Machen v. Hooper
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This is an action of damages brought by the appellants against the appellees upon the covenants contained in the following lease: This lease, made this sixth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, between Arthur W. Machen, trustee, of the City of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, of the first part, Amanda C. De Ford, of the City of Mobile, and State of Alabama, of the second part, and William E. Hooper, William J.…
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Appeal from the Baltimore City Court. This is an action of damages brought by the appellants against the appellees upon the covenants contained in the following lease: This lease, made this sixth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, between Arthur W. Machen, trustee, of the City of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, of the first part, Amanda C. De Ford, of the City of Mobile, and State of Alabama, of the second part, and William E. Hooper, William J. Hooper, Theodore Hooper and James E. Hooper, co-partners, trading under the name of William E. Hooper & Sons, of the said…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
The questions in this case were presented to the Court below with a considerable variety of form. They all depend, however, upon the proper construction of the agreements contained in a certain lease, which appears at large in the record. On the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the plaintiffs below (now appellants) leased to the defendants a lot of ground in the City of Baltimore “together with the building or warehouse thereon;” said lot and building being known as number 37 South Gay street. The lease was for the term of five years, accounting from the fifteenth day of…
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