Nelson v. Garey
This text of 114 Mass. 418 (Nelson v. Garey) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The plaintiff’s wife had no authority by law, without his assent, to give an irrevocable license to enter his tenement. The jury have found that the plaintiff did not know of or ratify the instrument signed by her, before the defendant’s entry, and that the wife did not, at the time of the entry, permit it. The defendant was, therefore, rightly held to be liable as a trespasser in forcibly breaking the door and entering the tenement for the purpose of taking his property, without the permission of the plaintiff. McLeod v. Jones, 105 Mass. 403. Swain v. Mizner, 8 Gray, 182.
Exceptions overruled.
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