Jones v. Marshall
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clcoyton District Court. Action to recover damages for forcibly dispossessing plain, tiff of her dwelling house and removing her household goods therefrom. Issue having been taken upon the allegations of the petition there was a trial by jury, which resulted in a ver■dict and judgment for the plaintiff for $250. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRornROCK, J.
i. damages: coverabie1-2" pleading. It appears from the evidence that the defendant as agent of the owner of a dwelling house leased the same to the plaintiff, at a rental of $2.50 per ' The defendant claimed that the plaintiff -was by the terms of the contract hound to pay the rent monthly in advance, and that she failed to make such payments, and that the tenancy expired. The defendant gave the plaintiff three days notice to quit, and sometime thereafter he procured from a justice of the peace a writ of possession or order of removal to be issued to a constable, who unlocked the house in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnson v. C., R. I. & P. R. Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1879
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