Steele v. Grand Trunk Junction Ry. Co.

This was an action of forcible detainer, brought in justice’s court, May 14, 1884, by the Grand Trunk Junction Pailway Company, against Steele, to recover the possession of certain premises definitely described in the complaint, for the cause that said premises had been let by one Howe to Steele, for the term of one year, at a specified rental; that Howe had conveyed the ¡iremises to the plaintiff below ; that said lease had expired by lapse of time, and defendant below held possession of said premises, after such termination of said lease, without right. Steele filed a plea in abatement in…