Markin v. Whitaker

The appellee sued the appellant, the proceeding being commenced before a justice of the peace on the 6th of March, 1899. In the court below the appellee filed an amended complaint, a demurrer to which for want of sufficient facts was overruled. In the complaint it was alleged, in substance, that on the 1st of Miarch, 1897, one Thomas Shull was in lawful possession of certain real estate described, in Blackford county, and lawfully leased the same to the appellant for the term of one year from that date; that by the terms of the lease it was agreed and provided that the tenancy should expire…