Steele v. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, Charles Steele, Jennie Abbott, Clara M. Slaymaker and Elizabeth M. Schwam, from a judgment of the District Court of Bamsey County, John W. Willis, J., entered December 6, 1893, that they take nothing by the action.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, Charles Steele, Jennie Abbott, Clara M. Slaymaker and Elizabeth M. Schwam, from a judgment of the District Court of Bamsey County, John W. Willis, J., entered December 6, 1893, that they take nothing by the action. On November 5,1888, the defendant the Anhauser-Busch Brewing Association, a corporation, leased of plaintiffs for six and a half years the building Nos. 14, 16 and 18, East Seventh Street, St. Paul, and agreed to pay $400 per month rent therefor on the first day of each month during the term. The lease was made on behalf of the plaintiffs by an agent who had…
1Opinion of the CourtGtleillan, C. J.
The plaintiffs, tenants in common of real es-state in St. Paul, attempted to rent the same by written lease to defendant for the term of seven years at stipulated rents per annum, payable monthly. The lease was void as to some of the parties under the statute of frauds, 1878 G. S. ch. 41, §§ 10, 12, because the agent by whom it was signed in their behalf was not authorized in writing; and also under 1878 G. S. ch. 69, § 2, because, they being married women, their husbands did not join with them in the lease. The defendant, however, entered upon and continued in possession. The action is to…
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