Samuel Meyers, Inc. v. Ogden Shoe Co.

Two partners doing business in Chicago concluded to form a corporation in Wisconsin for manufacturing raincoats in Milwaukee. They negotiated with an agent of the respondent defendant as to renting the fifth story of its building. Defendant was informed that they could not use the space unless it was served with alternating electric current; that the promoters were not fully organized as a corporation, but that the articles had been filed. They paid $150 for the first month’s rent, and it was agreed that the machinery might be at once installed and that a written lease would be executed.…