Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Illinois Merchants Trust Co.

This is an appeal from the decree of the superior court of Cook county granting specific performance of an option to purchase land described in a lease. The lease was given by Miles L. Turner, one of the appellants, to Earl M. Griffey, one of the defendants to the bill for specific performanee. A hearing of the cause was had before the court, and a large number of witnesses were heard touching the various issues of fact raised by the answer of the defendants to the bill.

The bill alleges that on May 16, 1924, Miles L. Turner entered into a lease with Earl M. Griffey by which there was leased…