Jones v. Pereira

This suit is instituted to recover ten thousand dollars for damages alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff in having been violently and forcibly expelled from a house she had leased, by A. Pereira, the lessor, aided by other persons.

The case was tried before a jury; they awarded two thousand dollars to plaintiff against said Pereira,- the case having only been tried as to him, and he has appealed from the judgment of the court thereon.

The evidence does not establish as clearly as could be desired, the nature and extent of the violence used by Pereira, the lessor, in ejecting plaintiff,…