Legal Opinion

Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Corporation of the Fine Arts Building

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 5, 1918No. Gen. No. 23,574PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. David F. Hatchett, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McSurely

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The Corporation of the Fine Arts Building, hereafter called petitioner, was allowed by the Probate Court its claim for rent, with priority, in Be Estate of Winfield Scott Thurber, deceased. The administrator appealed to the Circuit Court, where petitioner’s claim was disallowed, and from this order petitioner appeals to this court.

Petitioner, as lessor, leased a portion of the Fine Arts Building, on Michigan Boulevard in Chicago, to the Bissell-Cowan Piano Company under a written lease from May 1,1909, to April 30,1919, at a monthly rental of $2,166.67. On May 25, 1910, the Piano…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Spencer v. World's Columbian ExpositionIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  2. In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of PeckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  3. Harvey v. HarveyIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Dudley v. SanbornMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
  5. White v. MoreAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In Re Kelley's EstateMontana Supreme Court · 1931

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