Board of Education v. Crilly

Mr. Presiding Justice Scanlan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in the sum of $319,935 entered against defendants as alleged tenants of plaintiff. The judgment consisted of $279,216 for unpaid rent (with interest from November 27, 1935) which accrued over the ten-year period from May 8, 1925, to May 8, 1935, under a lease of school property located in downtown Chicago. In their brief defendants state that “the case was disposed of upon motions which put in issue the sufficiency of the amended complaint, answer, and counter-claim, as a matter of law.”…