Schiff Co. v. Peck Drug Stores, Inc.

Plaintiff, an Ohio corporation engaged in the business of operating chain retail shoe stores, filed its bill in the circuit court for the county of Washtenaw in chancery against defendant, a Michigan corporation with its offices in the city of Grand Rapids, Kent county, seeking cancellation or modification of a 20-year lease of certain real estate located in the city of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw county, entered into on July 8, 1929, between defendant as lessor and plaintiff as lessee. The bill alleges that the lease was procured through fraud and misrepresentation upon the part of defendant, and…