Alexander v. Gill

Newton Jackson and Jacob Ewald in August, 1887, filed their complaint before William C. Alexander, a justice of the peace of German township, in Marshall county, against Abraham Gill, for the possession of certain real estate described in the complaint, alleging that the plaintiffs in said cause were the owners and the defendant Gill was the tenant of the plaintiffs, and was unlawfully holding over and keeping such plaintiffs out of possession.

No question is urged as to the sufficiency of the complaint, and it was in the usual form of a complaint by a landlord against his tenant who was…