Clark v. Grand Rapids Trust Co.

Defendant trust company acted as agent for a Mrs. Webb in the management of her property. It rented her real estate and collected the rents. Among the property owned by her was a store building on Division street in Grand Rapids. This was rented to a Mrs. Traxler who sublet a portion of it to plaintiff. He made some repairs and established a restaurant in the portion so rented. The repairs included covering a portion of the walls with composition beaver-board. The restaurant was run for a time by a man named Wilson, was then sold to Mr. Badgerly, who ran it a few months, and it was then sold…