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5 D.C. 315

Slacum v. Brown

Decided October 15, 1837

Debt for two quarters’ rent on a demise at per annum, due November, 1832, and February, 1833.

Cited by 1 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1872

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Decided 1837-10-15

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¶1[item, con.) refused to give the instruction prayed by Mr. Semmes, being of opinion that Mr. Brown could not aban*316don after underletting a part of the premises for the year. That in such a case, the ruinous state of the premises, so that the defendant’s goods were liable to be injured thereby, is not sufficient to justify the abandonment; and that the receipt by Mrs. Slacum of rent from the sub-tenant of part of the premises, is not evidence of her assent to such abandonment.

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