Wright v. Robbins

In this suit for possession by a landlord based on a tenant’s alleged failure to pay rent, the trial court awarded judgment to the landlord (plaintiffs-appellees) because of the failure of the alleged tenant (defendant-appellant) to make a required protective order payment.1 The defendant implicitly admits that she had not made the payment, but contends that before striking her pleadings the trial court was obliged to consider the merits of her defense that the plaintiffs had improperly sued her for possession and back rent, since she was not the tenant on the lease at the time of the alleged…