Lacey v. Morris

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment, in an action of trespass to certain realty, recovered by appellee against appellant. The real estate consisted of two houses and lots in Jefferson county. No injury is claimed to have been done the freehold, but it was insisted that defendant unlawfully entered upon the premises, and instructed the tenants to pay him the -rents, and, at another time, tore off a trespass notice on the porch of one of the houses.

Defendant interposed special pleas to the effect that he was, at the time of the alleged trespass, the owner of the property and entitled to…