Savage v. Weeks

On the trial of the case one phase of the evidence tended to show that the defendant, a son, was a licensee or, at most, a tenant of his mother, who sold the land in question by warranty deed, moved therefrom and surrendered possession to the purchaser, and that the son's possession was still, at the time of the sale, that of a licensee or tenant of his mother. Held:

1. (a) That after a demand on the son for possession by the purchaser, the son refused to surrender possession, he was a tenant at sufferance, his entrance having been lawful but his continued possession wrongful.(b) Under such…