King v. Baker

Pannell, Judge.

1. Where a landlord is sued by a tenant seeking damages for an alleged unlawful eviction occurring while the tenant was absent on a trip, in which suit punitive damages are sought, it is proper, on cross examination of the defendant landlord, to elicit information as to his knowledge of the law relating to the legal and proper method of evicting a tenant. Such evidence bears directly on the question at issue.

2. The following charge is patently argumentative and inflammatory and the giving of same was reversible error: “Where a landlord, without the tenant’s consent and before…