Kleun v. Vinyard

This is a suit by attachment under the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1855, instituted by Vinyard against Kleun, before a justice of the peace for Jefferson county, for the recovery of rent. The affidavit upon which the attachment issued embraced all of the causes enumerated in section 26 of the act referred to, and were all set out in the alternative in the precise language of the statute. The transcript of the justice shows that there was a denial “ of the facts contained in the affidavit,” a trial upon that issue, and a verdict for Kleun, the plaintiff in error. The case was then taken to the…