Pamela Amusement Co., Inc. v. Scott Jewelry Company

HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered for defendants after trial before the court sitting without a jury.

Plaintiff, Pamela Amusement Co., Inc., is the assignee of a ground lease of a building located in Stamford, Connecticut. This building contains a motion picture theatre and several stores and offices. The instant litigation involves a purported lease of one of the stores.

Defendant Matthew J. Brown on August 28,1956 executed in New York a document that purports to be a lease of the store by…