Farmer v. Hunter

Hunter complained, before a justice of the peace, of Farmer and Driscoll of peaceably entering and forcibly detaining his premises. He prevailed both before the justice and on appeal, where the circuit judge refused to *338allow the defendants to show a right to the land and directed a verdict for plaintiff.

On the trial plaintiff showed acts of force in keeping him out. He also undertook to show that the contest arose on occasion of his attempt to re-enter on a terminated lease. He seems to have claimed that respondents got in collusively by arrangement with his outgoing tenant.

But they…