Tri-Mor Bowl, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CARTER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the defendant Brunswick Corporation (Brunswick) from an order of the Circuit Court of Madison County in a declaratory judgment action in favor of the plaintiff Tri-Mor Bowl, Inc. (Tri-Mor), finding that Brunswick, as Tri-Mor’s tenant and operator of a bowling center on a 2.94-acre lot known as Tract 1, has no rights in and to an adjacent 100- by 600-foot portion known as Tract 2 other than the right of ingress and egress.

In 1960 Henry Ross, president and sole stockholder of Tri-Mor, owned two parcels of land…