Kavanaugh v. Donovan

Cleo B. Donovan instituted an action at law against Frank P. Kavanaugh and Benjamin J. Kavanaugh, partners, trading as the Lynchburg Rendering Company, for damages for- waste in their occupation and use of premises owned by Donovan.

The parties will be referred to in the position they occupied in the court below. There Donovan was the plaintiff and the Kavanaughs, as partners, the defendants.

A trial by jury was had and a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $3,000 resulted. A judgment was entered upon the verdict.

In July, 1942, the plaintiff, who was the owner of the premises here involved,…