Chambers v. Security Commercial & Savings Bank

This action was brought to recover possession of certain real property, the prayer being for restitution of the premises and “for the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, treble the rent due,” with costs and disbursements, and “all other and proper relief.” In the complaint it was alleged that the defendant had failed to pay rental at the rate of five hundred dollars per month, as provided in a lease, on the first of each month for the year 1915, amounting in all to the sum of six thousand dollars. A jury was called to find the amount of rent due, and a verdict was returned fixing that amount at…