Palermo v. Stockton Theatres, Inc.

In a suit for declaratory relief plaintiff seeks to have adjudged violative of the California Alien Land Act (Stats. 1921, p. lxxxiii, as amended; 1 Leering’s Gen. Laws, Act 261), and consequently void and of no effect, a lease of commercial real property in California executed by plaintiff’s predecessor in interest, as lessor, to defendant corporation, as lessee. The defendant lessee corporation also is the successor in interest of the lessees’ rights, if any there be, under a previously executed lease of the same property to certain Japanese nationals. The capital stock of defendant lessee…