Griffin v. Marine Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Erastus S. Williams, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
The long litigation, of which the history is disclosed in this record, had its origin in certain transactions, which we will briefly state in their chronological order, so far as they have any material bearing upon the case, in the view we have taken of it. Many minor points have been more or less discussed by counsel, to which we do not deem it necessary to advert.
On the 2d of November, 1851, John S. Wright leased lots 3 and 4, block 5, in Chicago, to George A. Gibbs and Michael Tier-nan, for a term commencing November 22, 1851, and ending December 1,1856. In 1854, Tiernan assigned his…
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