Madon v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Nadler

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Eeversing.

This forcible detainer case is by the Commonwealth, on relation of the Assistant Director of the Division of Forestry, against Robert Madon to oust him from the possession of “a one-room lean-to-shack, about 8 by 14 feet,” located in the Kentucky Ridge Forest in Bell County. He was found guilty both in the court of a Justice of the Peace and the Circuit Court.

The Commonwealth proved that it had leased for preservation and development a boundary of 11,886 acres of mountain land from the United States Government for a period of 50 years from…