Landt v. McCullough
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;'—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;'—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. This is an action in assumpsit, commenced on January 18, 1901, in the superior court of Cook county by the appellee against the appellants, Charles C. Landt and Will H. Moore, upon a lease, dated March 20,,1889, alleged to have been made by the appellee to one James M. Stebbins, leasing certain premises therein described for a term of fifty years from the first day of May, 1889, and ending the 30th day of April, 1939, at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
Upon the trial below appellee introduced only one witness, the appellee, besides the documentary evidence herein referred to; and the appellants introduced no evidence whatever.
First—Appellee introduced in evidence the lease set out in the declaration. To its introduction the appellants objected, upon the ground that there were material erasures, interlineations, changes and alterations apparent upon the face of the lease, and that it was the duty of the appellee to explain these. The objection was overruled by the trial court, and the lease was admitted in evidence as it was, without such…
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