Buber v. Blais

112 A. 396, 79 N.H. 516, 1920 N.H. LEXIS 61

• Court: Supreme Court of New Hampshire
• Decided: December 7, 1920
• Status: Published

Opinion

Young, J.

The defendant bases his contention that the court erred, on the propositions (1) that a demand is necessary in order to terminate a lease for the non-payment of rent and (2) that it can be found the plaintiffs had waived the provision of the lease in respect to the payment of the rent on the 28th day of each month. Although a demand was necessary at common law to terminate a lease for nonpayment of rent, that is not trúe when, as in this case, the lease provides that no demand shall be necessary. McQuesten v. Morgan, 34 N. H. 400, 405.

Notwithstanding it is true that the plaintiffs by accepting the rent waived their right to terminate the lease for the defendant’s previous defaults, it cannot be found from these facts that they waived their right to insist that subsequent payments should be made on the day they were due. Neither can it be found that they are estopped to deny the defendant tendered the rent for the month in question on the day it was due for they notified him on the 26th that he must pay his rent on the day it was due. It is suggested that this action cannot be maintained because no entry on the demanded premises has been shown, but it is conceded that the plantiffs gave the defendant a notice to quit on a definite day, which was more than seven days after the day the notice was served on him, and P. S., c. 246, s. 4 as amended by Laws 1905, c. 57 provides that such a notice is equivalent to entry for condition broken.

Exception overruled.

All concurred.