House v. Lewis

Hostetler, District Judge.

This was an action in forcible entry and detainer. The matter was tried and submitted to a jury and a verdict returned in favor of defendant. From a judgment entered thereon, the plaintiff appeals.

The defendant ivas in possession of certain Indian lands as tenant under a government lease. By the terms of this lease defendant was required to pay as rent $80 on the 1st of March and $80 on the 1st of November of each year. The written lease specified no place for the payment of rents, merely reciting that rents should be payable to the superintendent of the Omaha…