Porter v. Duzeski
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Henry C. Bbitleb, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit for rent under a written lease. The defense was a prior adjudication, which the trial court sustained and entered judgment against the plaintiff. We are asked to reverse this on the ground that the court erred in holding the former judgment to be res judicata.
Duchess E. Delihant Duzeski, at that time unmarried, in March, 1910, executed as lessee a written lease from James F. Porter, hereinafter called plaintiff, of an apartment at a monthly rental of forty dollars, for a term beginning May 1, 1910, and ending…
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