Mayer v. Collins

Complainant, who is the lessee of defendant Collins under a 99-year lease expiring in 1991, filed his bill seeking to have the defendant enjoined from terminating or forfeiting the lease. Upon application the chancellor granted an interlocutory injunction to this effect upon the complainant filing a bond in the penal sum of $75,000, which bond was duly filed. From this order defendant appeals.

The premises involved are numbered * 57-59 West Randolph street, Chicago, and prior to June 1, 1931, were improved with a four-story building erected shortly after the Chicago fire in 1871. Defendant’s…