Konopka v. Cislo

This is a suit for the recovery of rents for the use and occupation of a store building in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

The plaintiffs who owned the store building conveyed it in exchange to Bruno Stange and Clara Stange, his wife, for a farm in Tuscola county, Michigan. Later the conveyance was set aside on the ground of fraud by the Wayne circuit court in chancery. Shortly after the Stanges became possessed of the store building, they leased it to the defendant, Cislo, for a period of three years at a monthly rental of $125. When the chancery suit was begun by the plaintiffs, an injunction…