Ward v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

—The appellee brought, in the court below, the landlord’s statutory action for the recovery of the possession of certain real estate, and damages for detention, against the appellant alleged to be unlawfully holding over after notice to quit for non-payment of rent.

There was an answer in a' single paragraph denying the landlord’s title and asserting the appellant’s ownership in fee simple at the time of the execution of the lease and thereafter, and also containing allegations which in argument here the appellant contends should be regarded as showing that the execution of the lease was…