S. T. McKnight Co. v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The S. T. McKnight company is, and long has been, the owner of a half of Lot 9, Block 222, Hoag & Bell’s Addition to Minneapolis, Minnesota, on South Sixth Street, in the downtown part of the city. In 1909 it executed a lease of the property for 100 years to Charles D. Collins, lessee. The lease was assignable and Collins promised, but failed, to assign it to John E. Andrus. By the decree in a suit for specific performance brought by Andrus against Collins and others in 1913, the lease was assigned to Andrus. In 1921 Andrus assigned the lease and transferred it in…