Gibbons v. Hoefeld
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel C. Stough, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal by the defendant, whom we shall call the tenant, from a judgment for $4,000 recovered by the plaintiff, whom we shall call the landlord, in an action for rent under a lease, which judgment was based upon a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence.
-The material facts are not disputed.- The landlord was erecting a 16-story building on Jackson boulevard in the City of Chicago. Shortly before its completion he and the tenant executed a lease covering a part of the first floor and a part of the basement in…
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