150 Mass. 71 | Mass. | 1889
The word “ tenement ” in its modern use often signifies such part of a house as is separately occupied by a single person or family, in contradistinction to the whole house. Commonwealth v. Hersey, 144 Mass. 297. It may consist of a single room or of contiguous rooms, or of rooms upon different stories, if such rooms are controlled by a single person and are used in connection with each other. The fact (if it were so) that one of the rooms was occupied and used as a shop, and another for a living room or kitchen, by the same person, would not make these rooms distinct tenements. Commonwealth v. Buckley, 147 Mass. 581. The Commonwealth could not prop