McNeill v. McNeill

STONE, Judge.

In this jury-waived, court-tried unlawful detainer action instituted in the magistrate court on August 23, 1968, plaintiffs Ira McNeill and Bertie Bell McNeill, his wife, sought possession of a 53-acre farm (hereinafter sometimes called the farm) in Barry County on which their son and daughter-in-law, defendants Jim McNeill and Sylvia McNeill, his wife, resided. Defendants appeal from an adverse judgment.

Plaintiffs’ complaint in conventional form alleged that defendants’ prior occupancy of the described premises as tenants at will had terminated on July 31, 1968, but that,…