Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1847

Babcock v. Albee

Babcock v. Albee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1847 · Shaw
54 Mass. 273

Babcock v. Albee

Opinion of the Court

Shaw, C. J.

The court are of opinion that the instructions to the jury were right. The effect of the permission of the plaintiff to the defendant, to remain a while longer, till he could sell off his goods, made the defendant either a tenant at sufferance, or it was a demise for a term, understood by the parties to be fixed by the purpose to be accomplished; in either of which cases, the defendant was not entitled to any new notice.

Exceptions overruled.

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