Steele v. Steele

Opinion by

Willson, J.

(Transferred from Austin.)

§ 345. Landlord and tenant; contract construed to be. a lease; estoppel; forcible detainer; case stated. Appellees brought this suit against appellant in justice’s court, under the’ statute of forcible entry and detainer, to recover possession of about one hundred acres of land, part of a tract of .three hundred and sixty acres. On the 4th day of November, 1S79, appellant purchased the whole of said three hundred and sixty acre tract, the same being sold at sheriff’s sale, by virtue of an execution against Henry Steele, one of the appellees, and…