Streit v. Fay
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; 'the Hon. Grorgr A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding.
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Writ or Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; 'the Hon. Grorgr A. Dupuy, Judge, presiding. This is an action of forcible detainer brought by defendant in error, Catherine S. Fay, against plaintiff in error, Nicholas Streit, April 23, 1898, before a justice of the peace of Cook county, to recover possession of certain property, consisting of two lots in block 3, Frazier’s addition to Chicago. George F. Cooke, of Louisville, Ky., was the owner of the premises, and on the 18th day of October, 1890, by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
Three grounds are urged by plaintiff in error as reasons .for a reversal of the judgment of the Appellate Court: (i) He was entitled to retain possession by virtue of covenants of renewals in the leases; (2) that defendant in error had no right to the possession unless she acquired title thereto by the conveyances from the Cookes, and it is insisted that their interest in the premises was not alienable, and therefore defendant in error acquired neither title nor right of possession by virtue of said conveyances; (3) that if said covenants were void as covenants for renewal, permitting him to…
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