Benefiel v. Semper

The plaintiff is a married woman. She and her husband were tenants at will, in possession of certain residence property owned by the defendant. The defendant went to the house for the purpose of serving upon his tenants a notice to quit. His attempted reading of the notice was interrupted by the plaintiff. Concerning this, she testified as follows:

“When Mr. Semper came to my house, he started to read the notice, and I told him he could not read any notice to me. T took the mop and swiped the notice off the table and out of the house, — he had laid the notice on the table,— and told him if he…