Powell v. Camp

This was.an action instituted before a justice of the peace against the defendant, for unlawfully detaining a certain lot in the city of St. Joseph, described in plaintiff’s complaint.

There was a judgment for the plaintiff in the justice’s court, from which the defendant appealed, and on a trial anew in the Circuit Court the same result followed.

The record shows that both parties gave evidence tending to prove the respective issues tendered, and the finding of *570the jury on the facts is conclusive upon us. The instructions, therefore, need only be examined.

The first instruction given at the…