Krevet v. Meyer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. This was an action of forcible entry and detainer. The evidence tended to show that the defendants entered certain rooms upon the third floor of a house in the city of St. Louis, which rooms were at the time in the possession of plaintiff, and removed a door belonging to said rooms, and the sash of the windows of said apartments, and thus forced plaintiff out of possession.
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Appeal from St. Louis Land Court. This was an action of forcible entry and detainer. The evidence tended to show that the defendants entered certain rooms upon the third floor of a house in the city of St. Louis, which rooms were at the time in the possession of plaintiff, and removed a door belonging to said rooms, and the sash of the windows of said apartments, and thus forced plaintiff out of possession. Defendants offered to prove that the premises in dispute had been let to plaintiff for only one month (which term expired before the alleged forcible entry) by Bernard Meyer, one of the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
By the common law, a person having a right of entry to lands in the possession of another might enter into the possession, and although he was subject to an indictment for any breach of the peace committed in making his entry, yet there was no remedy provided by which he could be compelled to make restitution of the possession thus forcibly taken. In order to correct the evils attending this state of the law, and to take away all inducement to persons to redress themselves at the expense of the peace of the community, several statutes were made which prohibited the forcible entry on the…
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