Foreman-State Trust & Savings Bank v. Demeter

Plaintiff in error, the Foreman-State Trust and Savings Bank, a corporation, as trustee, on December 9, 1929, in the municipal court of Chicago, obtained a judgment by confession for $8025 against defendant in error, Frank S. Demeter. On motion of defendant in error the judgment was opened up, he was given leave to plead, there was a trial by jury and a verdict and judgment in his favor. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court, and the case comes to this court bycertiorari.

The evidence shows that on December 1, 1924, defendant in error entered into a written lease with the Lindlahr…