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Show IMMORAL PURPOSE VOIDS LAND LEASE Dora B. Topham Wins in Supreme Court in Contention Over Old "Stockade" Rentals. Ignorance of the law does not violate a lease, holds the state supreme court in rendering a decision yesterday reversing re-versing the district court m the case of Polly A. Boyd against Dora B. Top-ham, Top-ham, otherwise known as Belle Lon don. Mrs. Boyd sued to recover $5575 alleged al-leged to be due on a lease of property known as the old "stockade,'' on West Second South street. She obtained judgment for the full amount in the district court, but the defendant appealed, ap-pealed, on the ground that the lease had become void, inasmuch as the property it involved had been used for purposes of prostitution, in violation of law ajid in violation of the terms of the lease. Such being the case, the defendant contended, con-tended, the lease was void and the plaintiff had no cause of action. The plaintiff pleaded that she had no knowledgo that the property was being be-ing used for unlawful purposes, but the supreme court holds that there could be no excuse for anyone not knowing for what the property was being use'L Hence, the lease was wholly void, it rules, and tho plaintiff had 'no ground for action. Accordingly, the case is remanded re-manded to the district court with instructions in-structions that it.be dismissed. |