Hanes v. Newport
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill for specific performance. Appeal from the City Court of Mattoon; the Hon. H. S. Clark, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Eamsay
delivered the opinion of the court.
A. P. Hanes filed a bill for specific performance of a contract, against Benjamin Newport and J. W. Adrian, in the City Court of Mattoon, to which said Newport and Adrian filed a demurrer. Upon hearing had thereon, the court sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill for want of equity. Hanes appealed.. The bill, in substance, states that appellees owned a livery stable property in Mattoon, Illinois, and on October 20, 1905, verbally leased the same to appellant for a period of one year from the first day of December, 1905, at…
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