Medinah Temple Co. v. Currey
Appellate Court of Illinois
Voluntary Assignment.—Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Orrin N. Carter, Judge, presiding. Submitted at the March term, 1895, of this court. '
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion
op the Court.
The principal question presented in the record of this case is whether, under the statute of this State concerning assignments for the benefit of creditors, the making by a debtor of a voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors is a violation of any of the covenants of a lease wherein the lessor agreed “ not to assign such lease, let or sublet the premises described therein, or any part thereof, without the written consent of the lessor.”
It is well settled that an assignment by mere operation of law, as a sale upon…
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