Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. v. Burke
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. — P. H. Heiskell, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This action was instituted to recover on six promissory notes executed to represent installments of the rent of a building in the city of Memphis. The defense relied on is that the building was demised by the landlord for use by defendants as a liquor saloon, in the face of laws in effect in that city prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors.
The building was leased to Burke by its owners through a real estate firm, on September 1, 1911, for a three-year term, the contract reciting that Burke as lessee covenanted “to use said building and premises for the purposes of a storehouse.” The…
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- Kessler v. PearsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
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