Pugh v. Middlebrooks

1. It is not essential to the relationship of landlord and tenant that the landlord be the owner of the premises. That relationship may be established where one not the owner of premises leases them to another, and the latter is in possession under the contract as a tenant. Scott v. Berry, 46 Ga. 394; Morgan v. Morgan, 65 Ga. 493; Spence v. Wilson, 102 Ga. 762 (29 S. E. 713).

2. Where a person, after agreeing with a prospective tenant to lease to him certain premises, referred him to another person, stating that the rentals had been turned over to that person, and where the prospective tenant…