Murphey v. Brown
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of tbe First Judicial District, in and for the County of Pima. John H. Campbell, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. A landlord under the statutes of Arizona has a lien upon the chattels of his tenant for rent due and to become due.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court of tbe First Judicial District, in and for the County of Pima. John H. Campbell, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. A landlord under the statutes of Arizona has a lien upon the chattels of his tenant for rent due and to become due. The landlord’s lien is conferred by virtue of the provisions of paragraph 2695, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1901: “Every landlord shall have a lien upon all the property of his tenant not exempt by law, placed upon or used on the leased premises until his rent shall be paid, and such landlord, his agent or…
1Opinion of the Court
NAVE, J. —
Appellants were plaintiffs below. Most of tbe evidence offered by them was ruled out upon objection. We shall state such facts as are pertinent to tbe opinion to be rendered, without distinction between facts admitted by the pleadings or proved and those facts which are in the record only as set forth in offered testimony.
Lizzie B. Murphey is the owner of a building in Tucson. In January, 1907, W. E. Murphey subscribed to a written instrument, as agent of Lizzie Murphey, which purported to lease to the defendant Brown a portion of this building for a period of one year, commencing…
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