Svatik v. Niles

Mr. Presiding Justice Hebel

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered in favor of the defendant, Harriett L. Niles. This judgment is based upon a suit at law upon a 99-year lease, dated February 20,1924. The original parties to the lease were John Krier, as lessor and Paul Niles as lessee. The suit was to recover the unpaid rent in the sum of $12,500 which accrued during the lessor’s life, together with interest and attorney’s fees, brought by the lessor’s personal representative against Harriett L. ISÍiles, as an intermediate assignee and…