McCarroll v. Newman

LE BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for damages brought by a tenant for an alleged unlawful eviction from the leased premises.

Plaintiff, Samuel A. McCarroll, alleges in his petition that on September 17, 1936, he rented from the defendant Mrs. Frank Newman, who was acting at the time for herself and as the agent of her daughter, Genevieve Newman, the lower floor of a building known as the “Fern Hotel” in the town of Franklinton. He rented the premises for the purpose of conducting a restaurant and alleges that the rent was to be the sum of $25 per month, payable monthly; that the first payment was…