Absher v. Illinois Central Railroad

PALMORE, Judge.

In 1901 the appellee Illinois Central Railroad Company (hereinafter called the Railroad) leased its hospital in Paducah to the Illinois Central Railroad Hospital Association, a corporation whose legal existence has since expired. The lease was cancelled in 1913 by an instrument which in effect substituted the appellee Illinois Central Railroad Company Hospital Department (hereinafter called the Department), an unincorporated association, as lessee of the hospital for the remainder of the term provided in the cancelled lease. We have held that this term ended on November 23,…