Legal Opinion
McGhee v. Housing Authority of Birmingham District
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 21, 2003No. 2011076PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PITTMAN, Judge.
This appeal concerns the duty of a tenant to pay, and the corresponding right of a landlord to recover, rents due under a lease agreement during the pendency of a de novo appeal to the circuit court from an unlawful-detainer judgment entered by a district court.
In March 2000, the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District (“HABD”) sued a tenant of one of its apartments, Vanessa McGhee (“the tenant”), in the Jefferson County District Court, alleging that the tenant’s lease was due to be terminated and possession of the apartment awarded to HABD because the tenant had allegedly…
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