Mattox v. Helm

*185Opinion of the Court,

by Cii. J. Boyle.

THIS is an appeal taken by the defendants from judgment rendered for the plaintiff in an action of ejectment. Several exceptions were taken by the defendants in the progress of the trial in the court below; but they present points of no difficulty. 1

1st. The lessor of the plaintiff, it appears, proved that he had leased the land in controversy to the defendants, and that the term for which it had been leased, had expired before suit brought; and the court ed the jury, that a lardlord might maintain an action of ejectment against his tenant, who held over…