Leary v. Langsdale

This suit was brought before a justice of the peace, to recover possession of real estate, by the appellee against the appellant, under “ an act concerning the unlawful detention of lands and the recovery thereof,” 2 G. & H. 636, the first section of which reads thus: “ That whenever, in pursuance of legal notice, or otherwise, any landlord or his legal representative shall be entitled to possession of lands, he may, by himself or his agent, have any tenant who shall unlawfully hold over, removed from such lands on complaint before a justice of the peace of the county in which such lands lie,…