Illinois Supreme Court September 15, 1874 (Pepper v. Rowley)

Mr. Justice Scott

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This action was to recover rent which had accrued and become due under a lease. The lease between the parties was in writing, and by its terms appellant let the premises to appellee from the 22d day of August, 1870, to the termination of a certain suit in ejectment, involving the title to the demised premises, then pending between Sophia C.