Swan v. Kemp

The material facts of this case are that Isabel A. Swan, one of the appellants, was the owner in fee-simple of a lot of ground on Baltimore street, in the city of Baltimore, upon which there was a valuable improvement in the way of a building which had long been used for business purposes. On the 5th of April, 1886, she with her husband executed to Alonzo Lilly a lease of these premises for ninety-nine years renewable forever, in the usual form and with the usual covenants and conditions of that familiar mode of conveyance, subject to an annual rent, for the first two years, of twenty-four…