Veazey v. Sinclair Refining Company

MacIntyre,-J.

The action here is a dispossessory-warrant proceeding by the landlord against the tenant. The legal evidence shows that A, the owner of a filling-station, leased it to B, the lease being written with a right in B to sublease. B subleased it to C, who went into possession thereof under B. C was a brother of A. C failed to pay the rent. B issued a dispossessory warrant against C, who, as the evidence showed, owed the rent but refused to pay the same. A had not released B by substituting C or otherwise. It is no reply for C to say merely that he is not the tenant of B, for the…