Brewer v. National Union Building Ass'n

Mr. Presiding Justice Gary

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellee sued the appellant for rent. The case was here in 1891, and, with the title reversed, is reported in 41 Ill. App. 223.

In accordance with the opinion of this court as there reported, the court on the last trial instructed the jury that the word “ canceled,” written by the officers of the appellee across the lease, “ ivas not of and by itself sufficient to release the ” appellant from paying rent. In this there was no error.

First, because the law is so, if we had never decided it in the case as reported, and for reasons…