U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia, 1837

Slacum v. Brown

Slacum v. Brown
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · Decided October 15, 1837
5 D.C. 315; 22 F. Cas. 315; 5 Cranch 315
Slacum v. Brown

Opinion of the Court

The Court

[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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