Swanson v. Fisher

This is an appeal from an interlocutory injunctional order granted without notice.

Appellant leased to appellee, a thoroughly experienced theatrical man, the Lyceum Theatre in Springfield, Ohio. The lease was made and entered into in Chicago. Appellant sued appellee for unpaid rent, in the Municipal Court of Chicago. Whereupon appellee thereafter filed this bill to restrain the prosecution of that suit and for a cancellation of the lease, on the ground that his execution of the same was procured by fraudulent representations.

The bill avers, inter alia, after setting forth the lease in haec…