Music Box, Inc. v. Mills

The Music Box, Inc., a corporation, brings suit against Milwaukee Social Club, an alleged non-trading corporation, and also against Henry Mills, as surety, claiming rent due for the use of certain premises in this ■ city. Payment is resisted by the surety on the ground that the lessor and the lessee conspired together, or at least agreed, without the knowledge and consent of the surety, to violate the prohibition laws of the United States and that, as a result of this violation, the occupancy of the premises was terminated suddenly and effectively by the *666arrest and conviction of tile lessee,…