Eichengreen v. Appel
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodobe Bbebtako, Judge, presiding. Appellant, being a" wholesale dealer in milk, employed appellee for $10 per week, and, appellee says, “ told him that he could have rent down stairs, live in his home, and that the appellant would take one dollar off each week for the rent.” Accordingly appellee and his wife moved into the rooms.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodobe Bbebtako, Judge, presiding. Appellant, being a" wholesale dealer in milk, employed appellee for $10 per week, and, appellee says, “ told him that he could have rent down stairs, live in his home, and that the appellant would take one dollar off each week for the rent.” Accordingly appellee and his wife moved into the rooms. Appellee says that he worked five months, appellee deducting four dollars a month, for rent, and left May 27, 1890; that afterward he found a note on his table that if he did not move out on the morrow he,…
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, P. J.
Taking appellee’s statement as to the
circumstances and arrangement under which he occupied rooms in appellant’s house as true, it is apparent that' if his occupancy can be denominated a tenancy, it was a tenancy that terminated with his service. He was not hired for any special period, nor was there any agreement that he was to be permitted to occupy the rooms for any definite time. When of his own accord he left the service of appellant, his right to longer remain in the rooms was at an end; thenceforth he was there by the mere sufferance of appellant. Proceeding with reasonable notice, in a…
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