Dees v. . Apple

A landlord makes a verbal contract with a tenant to lease a tract of land for agricultural purposes. The lease reserves no right of reentry for condition broken and contains no provision to the effect that failure to perform covenants therein binding upon the lessee shall work a forfeiture of the lease. Before the term of the lease expires the landlord brings an action in summary ejectment in the civil division of the' municipal court of the city of Greensboro. No written pleadings were filed and there was judgment “for possession of the premises, and for costs.” The defendant appealed to the…