Shepard v. Sullivan

Holcomb, J. —

This case involves a lease for a “first class saloon” in the city of Seattle, and involves generally the same questions considered in the cases of The Stratford v. Seattle Brewing & Malting Co., ante p. 125, 162 Pac. 31, and Aronson v. Sweeney, post p. 698, 162 Pac. 35.

In this case, appellant, the lessor, makes the further contention, in effect, that a lease for a term of years conveys an estate in land, which estate cannot be destroyed by intervening legislation prohibiting saloons, but such prohibition destroys only the covenant for that specific use which is made illegal by…