Ryan v. Dougherty

There are several provisions in the Statute of 1866, which are new to the law of forcible entry and detainer. A more enlarged definition is given, both to a forcible entry and a forcible detainer. The first section of the Act (see Stats. 1865-6, p. 768) provides that “if any person shall, with violence and a strong hand, enter into or upon any lands or buildings, either by breaking open doors, windows, or other parts of a house, or by any kind of violence or circumstance of terror, * * * such person shall be deemed guilty of a forcible entry, ” etc. An entry made ‘ ‘by breaking open doors,…