# Slacum v. Brown

> U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · October 15, 1837 · 22 F. Cas. 315

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8316057

## Case

- **Full name:** Jane H. Slacum v. John M. Brown
- **Court:** U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
- **Decided:** October 15, 1837
- **Citations:** 22 F. Cas. 315; 5 D.C. 315; 5 Cranch 315
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

The Court
[item, con.) refused to give the instruction prayed by Mr. Semmes, being of opinion that Mr. Brown could not aban *316 don after underletting a part of the premises for the year. That in such a case, the ruinous state of the premises, so that the defendant’s goods were liable to be injured thereby, is not sufficient to justify the abandonment; and that the receipt by Mrs. Slacum of rent from the sub-tenant of part of the premises, is not evidence of her assent to such abandonment.

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