Willoughby v. Lawrence

On May 1, 1878, Magie & Tree executed to Lawrence & Martin a lease of the west half of the north-west quarter of section 14, town 39, north of range 13, east, in Cook county, for ten years from its date, with the privilege, on the part of the lessees, of terminating the lease at the end of five years, upon giving three months’ written notice to the lessors. The lessees therein agreed not to sub-let any portions of the land or to assign any less portion of the leasehold interest than the whole, and not to permit the erection thereon of any buildings, except those necessary or convenient in the…