Walter v. Cathcart

This was a proceeding in forcible entry and detainer, taken to the Circuit Court by certiorari. None of the evidence given on the part of the plaintiff, Walter, is preserved in the record. The only piece of evidence offered by the defendant was an assignment of some leasehold premises to him by Gr. A. Phegley, showing a title to the tenements about which the suit was brought. This was excluded, to which an exception was taken. The record presents nothing else but the instructions given and refused. The judgment of the law is, that the proceedings below are correct, unless it be shown that…