Craig v. Day

1. The evidence adduced upon the trial of the issues raised by the affidavit and counter-affidavit in this dispossessory-warrant proceeding was in conflict, but sufficient to authorize the jury to find that the relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant was that of landlord and tenant at will; that the defendant tenant failed and refused to pay the rent when due and was holding over and beyond her term; and that the defendant tenant, by claiming the property as her own and indicating, prior to the institution of the dispossessory warrant proceedings, that she would not surrender…