Paquetel v. Gauche

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff to recover the possession of, and to eject from the leased premises the defendant, who, it is alleged, illegally detains them. The defendant plead the general issue, and specially averred that he never was the monthly tenant of the-plaintiff, having leased the premises on the 12th January, 1866, from Mr. Pierre Soule, for the period of two years, from the 16th of October of that year, with the privilege of extending it for five years ; of which privilege the defendant has availed himself, and by virtue of which he occupied the premises until the…