Trustees of University Co-Operative Co. v. City of Madison

On July 30, 1926, the plaintiff, as lessee, and the Regents of the University of Wisconsin, as lessor, entered into a thirty-year lease of a certain building located at the northwest corner of State and Lake streets in the city of Madison. The building is a one-story structure, having a frontage of sixty feet on State street and one hundred feet on Lake street. The comparatively flat roof of the building is drained by an 8-inch iron pipe which in 1925 was connected with a 20-inch tile storm drain which was constructed by the city in 1893, and ran along the westerly side of Lake street at the…