Cedar Rapids Sash & Door Co. v. Dubuque Realty Co.

Though there is little dispute in the salient facts, yet one disputed fact presents the crux of the case. The issue, therefore, is a very narrow one. The defendant was the owner of a building situated upon one of the business streets of Cedar Rapids. He rented it by written lease to certain five defendants, who formed a partnership under the name of the Hawkeye Lunch, and who proposed to use the building and did thereafter use the same as a restaurant or lunch room. The building needed more or less overhauling, in order to render it suitable for that purpose. The lease expressly provided that…