Austinville Building Corp. v. Lurie

This is an appeal by defendant from an adverse judgment in an action of forcible detainer, upon the verdict of a jury.

Plaintiff relies on clause 6, paragraph 2, of the Forcible Entry and Detainer Act, Cahill’s St. ch. 57, which provides that a person entitled to possession of lands and tenements may be awarded the same “When lands or tenements have been conveyed by any grantor in possession . . . and the grantor in possession . refuses or neglects to surrender possession thereof after demand in writing by the person entitled thereto, or his agent.”

Upon the trial plaintiff showed by the…