Benner v. Cotgreave

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that failure to pay rent, even if wilful, is not a ground for forfeiture
• courts will grant equitable relief to prevent a forfeiture even if the tenant’s failure to pay rent was willful
• “right to reenter being restricted to a breach of specific covenants of the lease, impliedly excludes the right of the lessor to re-enter for a breach of other covenants”
• accidental failure to pay rent on time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).