Gardt v. Brown

Mr. Justice Walker*

delivered the opinion of the Court:

It appears from the record that G. Henderson and P. Holstrom, prior to July 20, 1878, had leased two rooms in the basement of Brown’s hotel, in Galesburg, in this State, in which they kept a dram-shop and billiard saloon. Their lease was about expiring, when it was agreed the owners of the hotel would sell to Henderson a strip of ground in the rear of the hotel, on which to erect a building for a dram-shop, and to lease the two rooms at a reduced rent, and to permit Henderson to cut a door in the wall between his saloon building and these…