Kesner v. Consumers Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $73,962.34 in plaintiff’s favor, mainly for rent of the twentieth and twenty-first floors of an office building at the corner of State and Quincy streets, Chicago. The defense was constructive eviction, arising out of the acts of the plaintiff in leasing other portions of the same building, underneath the floors occupied by defendant, to be occupied by motion picture film exchanges, with knowledge that such occupancy involved the use and storage of large quantities of explosive and inflammable material, attended with danger to defendant’s officers and…