Campbell v. Banks

This is an appeal from a judgment for $90, which was rendered by the circuit court of Hancock county. The judgment is based upon the verdict of the jury which the court directed the jury to render; and the legal propriety of the directed verdict is the principal question involved in this appeal.

The record discloses the following facts; namely, that the appellant John Banks, who is an undertaker, was a tenant of the appellee J. G-. Campbell; and a tenant from month to month under a verbal leasing of a part of a two-story brick building in La Harpe owned by the appellee, which he used and…