Coal Run Coal Co. v. Cecil

Lively, Judge:

This writ is to review a judgment of the circuit court whereby possession of. a tenement was given plaintiff and damages of $51.80 awarded against defendant for its detention.

The action is unlawful detainer begun before a justice of the peace on March 29, 1922, where judgment was rendered for plaintiff; an appeal therefrom was taken to the circuit court where a jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for possession of the tenement and $51.80 damages for its detention, in response to a peremptory instruction; and judgment was entered accordingly. A motion for a new trial was made…