Bondy v. Harvey

The plaintiff in this action recovered a judgment for over $720,000 on a complaint which alleged a breach of a contract by defendants to lease to plaintiff for a period of ninety-nine years a site for a theatre in the city of Milwaukee, Wis.

The agreement upon which the suit was brought while called a contract for lease, and evidently intended to be so, does make use of present words of demise and lease while both parties knew that the defendant and his brother had only a possibility of controlling part of the land, and besides had leased property constituting a then open city street or alley…