Barge v. Schiek
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Frederick Schiek, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, William Loehren, Henry G. Hicks and Frederick Hooker, JJ., entered July 21, 1893, for the recovery of the possession of the premises in dispute.
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Appeal by defendant, Frederick Schiek, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, William Loehren, Henry G. Hicks and Frederick Hooker, JJ., entered July 21, 1893, for the recovery of the possession of the premises in dispute. On July 20, 1887, the plaintiff, Jacob Barge, owned the premises No. 49 Washington Avenue South in Minneapolis and had rented the adjoining building No. 47 of John Schulte who owned it and had a ground lease for ninety nine years of the lot on which it stood, but Schulte’s lease to Barge had expired on July 15, 18S7. Barge claimed the right to a renewal…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
We have examined all of defendant’s assignments of error, bnt it would be as useless to discuss them in detail as it would be tiresome to attempt to follow all the sinuosities of practice which obtained during the progress of this case.
The only assignments of error that have any substance, or at all go to the merits of the case, are those which relate to the construction of the provision in the lease, set up in the complaint, giving defendant “the privilege of another term of five years;” the vital question being whether it applies only to that portion of the leased premises described as No.…
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