Cinderella Theatre Co. v. United Detroit Theatres Corp.

This is an appeal from a decree which set aside an assignment of a lease by defendant United Detroit Theatres Corporation (UDT), lessee, to defendant Pontiac Theatre Corporation (Pontiac), and provided that plaintiff (Cinderella), lessor, should recover from the assignor UDT the unpaid rental instalments accruing after the assignment up to the date of the decree.

August 5, 1937, a 15-year lease was entered into between plaintiff and UDT for the Cinderella Theatre, which is located on the east side of Detroit, and on July 30, 1952, the lease in suit was entered into by plaintiff Cinderella and…