Keyes v. Moy Jin Mun

GRAY, C.

This is an appeal from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor in an action for unlawful detainer brought for failure to comply with a demand to pay rent or surrender the premises, which demand was made after said rent was due.

The complaint alleges facts showing that there was due plaintiff for rent two hundred dollars on April 1, 1899, and that no part thereof has ever been paid, and the court so found. The prayer of the complaint was for a forfeiture of the lease, restitution of the premises, “and the recovery of $600, being treble the rent now due as aforesaid.” In its conclusions of law…