Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Carson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. This is an action upon a lease, dated April 25, 1887, executed by John B. Carson and Andrew J. Cooper, leasing certain premises in Chicago to the appellant for five years from May 1, 1887, at a total rental of §35,000.00 for the five years, to be paid in monthly installments of §583.33, on the first day of each month in advance. The present suit is to recover for the rent due for the fourteen months from March 1, 1891, to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The present suit is brought to recover rent for the period from March 1, 1891, to May 1, 1892, upon the same lease, which is described in Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway Co. v. Carson, 151 Ill. 444. The former suit, which was disposed of by the case referred to, was brought for the installments of rent upon said lease for the period from May 1,1890, to March 1,1891. The additional replication, filed in the present case, sets up the verdict and judgment in the former case as an estoppel or bar to the prosecution of the present suit, so far as the validity of the lease is concerned.…
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