Moulthrop v. City of Detroit

On March 12, 1917, the city of Detroit through its board of health leased from plaintiff a building known as the Irwin apartments, to be used as nurses’ quarters for the period of one year thereafter at an annual rental of $14,400 payable monthly in advance, or at the rate of $1,200 per month. An epidemic of scarlet fever was then prevalent in the city of Detroit, resulting in an overcrowded city hospital near by not having capacity to accommodate its nurses and the building was secured to house them. The lease contained in customary form a provision that the city of Detroit would at its own…