Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 27, 1875 (Rice v. Enwright)

Morton, J.

This is an action to recover rent due under a written lease. The answer contains a general denial of the plaintiff’s allegations, and sets up in avoidance that the plaintiff knowingly let the premises to be used for the illegal keeping and sale of intoxicating liquors.

At the trial the execution of the lease and the defendants’ occupation under it were.