Chapman v. Farris

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

This is an appeal by tbe plaintiff from a judgment of tbe circuit court dismissing a forcible entry proceeding on a trial of a traverse by tbe defendant of tbe inquisition before tbe justice of-the peace who issued the writ.

*363The 'Court’s action in taking the case from the jury and dismissing the writ was based upon a finding by the court that plaintiff and the Prewitt-Miller and Goff Land, Oil aud Gas Company were j'oint owners of the sixteen acres of land involved, and that the defendant had entered thereon as a tenant of the company.

The question…