In re Clancy

5 F. Cas. 811

• Court: District Court, E.D. Michigan
• Decided: July 1, 1868
• Status: Published

Opinion

LONGYEAR, District Judge.

Without taking issue with the foregoing views of the learned register, on general principles, or, as applied to an ordinary case of a claim for rent, I think the peculiar circumstances of this case are such as, in equity at least, to entitle the claimant to the whole of his claim. By receiving from the railroad company the money allowed on account of rent to be paid in the future, and agreeing, in consideration thereof, to continue to pay rent the same as though his use and enjoyment of the premises had not been disturbed, Clancy must be held to have waived any and all legal objection he may have been entitled to make to the payment of rent on account of such disturbance; and the assignee occupies no better position than, but precisely the same as, Clancy in that respect. The claim in question must therefore be allowed as proven. Let it be so certified to the register.