Allen v. Kendrick

Where a tenant holding over arrested dispossessory warrant proceedings brought by a landlord, by filing, as required by section 5387 of the Civil Code (1910), a counter-affidavit and a bond conditioned that the tenant should pay to the landlord “ such sum, with costs, as may be recovered against her on the trial of the case,” and on a trial of issue a verdict and judgment for the landlord were rendered for a specified sum as double rent to the date of the trial, and directing the issue of a writ of possession against the tenant, and on the sheriff’s execution of the writ the tenant paid the…