Court Opinion

ID: 7350748
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-26 02:09:33.457283+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:27.153076
License: Public Domain

BIJUR, J.
This action was brought to recover rent for the months of December, January, and February of a country-house in Connecticut. The only question raised on this appeal is in reference to the judgment in favor of plaintiff on defendant’s counterclaim for damages for false representations.
Defendant’s testimony, uncontradicted either by direct testimony or circumstances, is that plaintiff’s real estate agent, through whom the lease was negotiated, told defendant that the water supply was ample and came from a driven well; whereas, there rarely, if ever, was sufficient water supply for ordinary household purposes, and in December there was substantially no water at all, evidently because the water supply came, not from a driven well, but ran from a brook, which was frozen solid. Defendant abandoned the premises, but for various reasons, which need not be adverted to here, no claim of constructive eviction is made.
As it is plain on the record, as it stands, that judgment should have been given for the defendant, it must be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.