123 Mass. 288
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 2, 1877
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1877-10-02
Contract, by Israel Harmon and Henry Cooley, against Terrence Flanagan and F. W. Helen, to recover the rent of certain rooms in a block on Main Street in Springfield. Writ dated May 6, 1876.
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1904
3 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1877-10-02
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¶1The lease for ten years from the owner of the fee to the plaintiffs expressly conveyed to them an estate in the premises extending beyond the term of the prior lease for five years to the defendants, and the rent subsequently accruing under that lease, and entitled them to sue for such rent in their own names. Burden v. Thayer, 3 Met. 76. Kendall v. Carland, 5 Cush. 74. Hunt v. Thompson, 2 Allen, 341.
¶2Exceptions overruled.