Dedo v. Kuser

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The challenge is, as under our statute it necessarily must be, to the jurisdiction of the court in the premises. There was a judgment of dispossession, based on legis lation in line with a statute first enacted in 1884 (Pamph. L. 1884, p. 1878), amended by Pamph. L. 1888, p. 426, and to be found at page 3079 of the compiled statutes of 1910. That act is entitled “An act regulating lettings in cases where no definite term is fixed,” and by a proviso prescribes, as to cases of “letting where no term is agreed upon and the rent is payable…