Keystoke Coal & Coke Co. v. Hall

Ritz) Judge:

The plaintiff instituted before.a justice of the peace an action of unlawful entry and detainer to recover possession of the dwelling house occupied by the defendant and his family, situate on its property. The defendant, until a short time prior to the institution of the suit, was an employe of the plaintiff, and while such employe occupied one of the houses owned by it as part of its mining plant. Shortly before the institution of the suit the defendant was dismissed from plaintiff’s services, and demand made upon him to vacate the house. This he refused to do, and. this suit…