Adams v. Shewmake Bros.

This being a proceeding to dispossess a tenant, the sole issue here is whether Adams, the defendant, was *742■ the tenant of Shewmake Brothers Company, the plaintiff. I cannot agree with the conclusion of the majority of the court that the ■undisputed evidence, as a matter of law, established this relationship. Defendant’s original entry upon the premises was not as a tenant, but as a purchaser under bond for .title as to one parcel, and as to the other parcel as owner and holder of the title until he executed a deed to secure debt from one whose title plaintiff succeeded to. Before the alleged…