Jacksonville Hotel Building Corp. v. Dunlap Hotel Co.

This cause is here upon a certificate of importance from the Appellate Court for the Third District for a review of its judgment reversing, on error, a decree of the circuit court of Sangamon county for the specific performance of a contract by appellee, the Dunlap Hotel Company, in favor of appellant, the Jacksonville Hotel Building Corporation.

M. F. Dunlap, a banker of Jacksonville, Illinois, recognizing the need of the city of Jacksonville for a modern hotel building, in 1922 called into conference several citizens and commenced the promotion of a building corporation to construct a hotel…