Bowles v. Dean
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Judge. Dean, the appellee, was plaintiff, and Bowles, appellant, defendant in tbe court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe defendant appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe opinion states tbe facts.
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From tbe circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Judge. Dean, the appellee, was plaintiff, and Bowles, appellant, defendant in tbe court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe defendant appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe opinion states tbe facts. Tbe old common law remedies having been found too slow, tbe statute of 11 Geo., 11., sec. 19, was passed providing tbis remedy and tbe statute of Mississippi, under wbicb tbis proceeding is brought (§ § 2547-2548, Code 1892), and tbe similar statutes in tbe other states of the-union are based upon tbis statute. Tbe statute…
1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.
So far as this record shows, the proceedings were begun under Code 1892, § 2547 et seq., by. an affidavit before a *379justice of the peace, showing that there personally appeared '“J. T. Dean, agt. for G. G. Dean, who makes oath that T. A.. Bowles, a tenant for a part of the year 1903, of G. G. Dean, for a certain lot of land described as [describing it], holds over and continues in possession of said premises after the expiration of his term, without permission of the landlord, G. G. Dean; wherefore he prays for a writ to issue requiring the said T. A. Bowles to remove from said premises, or to…
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