Slavin v. Rent Control Board of Brookline
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
548 N.E.2d 1226 (Mass. 1990)
Relevant factsFree
Landlord Slavin (plaintiff) sought to evict a tenant who assigned his lease without Slavin's consent, but the Rent Control Board (defendant) read an implicit reasonableness requirement into the lease and refused to permit eviction, prompting Slavin's suit for declaratory enforcement of the lease's actual terms.
IssueFree
Whether a residential landlord may unreasonably withhold his consent to an assignment of a lease even when there is no provision that his consent will not be unreasonably withheld.