Eads v. Rucker

•Chief Justice Roberts on

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Three questions will be considered in this case:—

First. Can'a joint tenant maintain a warrant against his co-tenant for a forcible detainer ?

Second. What should be the form of the warrant, and the character of the judgment for restitution, m such a p

*112Third. Can a warrant for forcible detainer be maintained against a person who was not in possession at the date of the warrant, and who had never been the tenant of the plaintiff ?

I. Ejectment may be maintained by one joint tenant against a co-tenant for an actual disseizin ; and no…