Lewis v. Welch Wholesale Flour & Feed Co.

Poffenbarger, President:

The judgment under review on this writ of error was rendered upon a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, in an action of unlawful detainer in which the issues involved are right to possession of one floor of a certain building and damages for detention thereof. I

The defendant, a corporation, was in possession of that floor at the date of the lease made to the plaintiff, as tenant of the lessor, under some sort of an agreement the nature of which is not disclosed by the evidence, and the lease recognized such possession and contained a stipulation respecting it.…