Source: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Date: 1837-10-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 22 F. Cas. 315 · 5 Cranch, C. C. 315
Opinion
THE COURT (nem. con.) refused to give the instruction prayed by Mr. Semmes, being of opinion that Mr. Brown could not abandon 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 subtenant of part of the premises, is not evidence of her assent to such abandonment.