Legal Opinion
Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Co. v. Williams
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided September 19, 1936No. 2720PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OTIS, District Judge.
Defendants are and for some time have been the owners in fee of certain real estate in Kansas City, Mo. By an indenture dated April 11, 1890, they leased this property for a term of 99 years to plaintiff’s predecessor as lessee. Plaintiff realty company now is lessee and plaintiff dry goods company, which operates a large mercantile establishment oil the premises, is sub-lessee. The yearly rental fixed in the lease for the 92 years following April 1, 1897, is 557,280 grains of pure unalloyed gold, payable in quarter-yearly installments of 139,-320 grains. The lessors were…
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3Cited by1 opinion
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