Case Name: ALLEN v. BENNETT
Court: United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1872
Citations: 1 F. Cas. 444
Docket Number: 
Parties: ALLEN v. BENNETT.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 444–444

Head Matter:
Case No. 214.
ALLEN v. BENNETT.
[6 Amer. Law Rev. (1872,) 755.]
District Court. D. Connecticut.
Lease — Condition against Assignment — Breach —Bankrupcty.
This was a bill in equity brought by an as-signee in bankruptcy to enjoin one who had leased a store to the bankrupt from disturbing the petitioner’s possession. The lease stated that the store was to be used by the bankrupt as a dry goods store, and provided for a forfeiture in case of an assignment without the written consent of the lessor.

Opinion:
The court
(SHIPMAN, District Judge)
held
that the assignment to the petitioner, being the act of the law, did not work a forfeiture; and that an assignment by him. as the agent of the law, to a purchaser of the leasehold interest, would be equally without the proviso.