Alger v. Community Amusements Corp.

Appellant, who was the lessee in a ten-year lease from appellee for certain theatre premises in the city of Bochelle, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Ogle county to compel the specific performance of an option in the lease for an additional term of five years after its expiration, and to restrain appellee from ousting him from possession. The chancellor upon a hearing entered a decree dismissing the complaint for want of equity, and continuing in force, upon the filing of an appeal bond in the sum of $3,500, a temporary injunction restraining appellee from ousting appellant pending…