Coffman v. Sammons

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The complaint on this writ of error goes to the court’s direction of a verdict for the plaintiff in an action of unlawful detainer, commenced in a justice’s court and carried to the circuit court by an appeal.

The rights of the parties turn mainly on the interpretation of a written agreement by which the plaintiff leased to the defendant a certain tract of land. This very informal instrument reads as follows: “I this day lease to Sam Sammons all of the tract of the White oak flat known as the Driscoll tract of timber running with the county road known as the Coffman road…