8930 South Harlem, Ltd. v. Moore

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County in a dispute concerning a parcel of land that was the subject of two inconsistent conveyances by a single grantor, a sale and a lease executed between the time the contract of sale was signed and the deed under it was delivered.

The trial court found that the vendor was not legally able to lease the land in question, but that the supposed lessee had, by virtue of contacts with the purchaser of the land, acquired an irrevocable license in it. A judgment consistent with this finding was entered.

On appeal, both lessee and…