Riggs v. Murdock

JACOBSON, Judge.

The confusion in nomenclature shown by the defendant’s pleadings in this action points up the confusion existing in the law of landlord and tenant. In this field, the law of property rights have been blended with the law of contracts to such an extent that, depending upon what court is speaking, the practitioner is left in a quandary as to what law applies.

This quandary arose in an action by DAVID H. MURDOCK, dba DAVID A. MURDOCK DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, Plaintiff-appellee, against ROCKFORD R. RIGGS, Defendant-appellant, and JULIA W. RIGGS, his wife, for rentals due and owing…