Pickard v. Kleis

The plaintiff commenced summary proceedings before a circuit court commissioner to recover possession of a farm situated in the township of Alamo, in the county of Kalamazoo. She claimed that she was landlord of the premises, and that defendant was her tenant and held the premises unlawfully and against her rights, and that she was lawfully entitled to the possession of the same. The cause was tried in the circuit court before a jury. The plaintiff was sworn and testified in her own behalf. She said : “We signed a paper at my house on September 22, 1882; the paper now shown me is the one. The…