Spencer v. World's Columbian Exposition
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—beard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—beard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. The World’s Columbian Exposition, as first party, and John S.- Morris, as second party, entered into a written contract of date March 16, 1892, which, so far as material to this controversy, was as follows: “That the said party of the first part, (the World’s Columbian Exposition,) for and in consideration of the promises and agreements of the said party of the second part, (John S. Morris,) hereinafter set forth, hereby…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
We agree with the Appellate Court in holding that the contract between appellee and Morris, and which he assigned to the New England Clam Bake Company, partook of the nature of a lease, by which a certain space in the World’s Fair grounds, 50 by 250 feet, was set apart to the clam bake company, to be used by it for a restaurant, under the conditions specified, during the continuance of the exposition, for the stipulated price or rental of twenty-five per cent of the gross receipts. When appellant, as trustee under the two deeds of trust executed by the company, took possession of the…
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