Corbin v. Thompson

In the lower court the appellant sought and was denied a receiver to take possession and collect the rents of certain real estate then occupied by the appellee.

In his petition he alleged that he had begun and prosecuted an action in said court for the possession of said property and accrued rents, claiming to be the owner thereof, and that the appellee occupied as his tenant, and was holding over; that upon a trial of said cause, the appellee had succeeded in a defense that he occupied as a purchaser and not as a tenant; that the appellee, in such trial, relied upon evidence of an oral…