Law, Business, and Society 9th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 22

A building was rented "for use as a saloon" under an eight-year lease. Five years thereafter the state passed a law making the sale of liquor illegal. The renter, a brewery, argued that it no longer had any duties under the contract. Was the brewery correct Explain. See Heart v. East Tennessee Brewing Co., 113 S.W. 364 (Tenn. S. Ct. 1908).