HOOK BROWN CO. v. FARNSWORTH PRESS, INC.


348 Mass. 306 (1965)

203 N.E.2d 681

HOOK BROWN COMPANY vs. FARNSWORTH PRESS, INC.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Schneider for the defendant.

Kirk S. Giffen for the plaintiff.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

The plaintiff (Hook) seeks specific performance by the defendant (Farnsworth) of an oral agreement (of which there was a written memorandum mentioned below) to give a sublease of part of the ninth floor of a building owned by Boston Wharf Company (Wharf). Farnsworth appealed from a final decree directing it to execute and deliver a lease for one year from December 1, 1961, to "continue ... from year to year until ... [Hook] shall at a reasonable time prior...

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