{"id":2036,"date":"2013-08-28T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:40:31","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-and-judgment-notwithstanding-the-verdict-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-and-judgment-notwithstanding-the-verdict-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Jury\u2019s Verdict and Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed the decision of a Cook County Circuit Court judge in a dispute that arose over a rental property.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Randy Franks entered into a commercial lease agreement with Sheldon Broder.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Franks was leasing a property to use as a retail store.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Franks paid Broder a security deposit of $4,012 and monthly rent of $2,300 plus one-third of the real estate taxes for the property.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The lease agreement was made on March 30, 1996.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The rent was raised to $3,900 in 2004.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Franks made his rent payments on time for the entire term of the lease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Nov. 28, 2006, Franks sent a letter to Broder stating that he planned to end the lease on Jan. 15, 2007.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Franks also asked if Broder would allow the use of his security deposit ($4,012) to cover the remaining 1 \u00bd months of rent.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Broder responded that the lease stated that the security deposit could not be applied toward the rent and required Franks to pay the rent for the remaining part of the lease.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Franks paid Broder the December 2006 rent and then informed Broder that he would be out of the country in January.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Franks and Broder agreed to allow the use of the space for storage through Feb. 15, 2007.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-and-judgment-notwithstanding-the-verdict-order\/#more-2036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed the decision of a Cook County Circuit Court judge in a dispute that arose over a rental property.\u00a0Randy Franks entered into a commercial lease agreement with Sheldon Broder.\u00a0Franks was leasing a property to use as a retail store.\u00a0Franks paid Broder a security deposit of $4,012 and monthly rent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-litigation","category-real-estate-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Jury\u2019s Verdict and Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict Order &#8212; 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