Adams v. Tilley
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wyoming County. ■ Action of unlawful entry and detainer by Ashby Adams against John L. Tilley. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, jTJDGE :
The judgment and practically directed verdict for the plaintiff, complained of in this action of unlawful entry and de-tainer between lessees, in which recovery of the possession of 11.2 acres of land is sought, stand upon the hypothesis of possession of the plaintiff, irrupted upon by the defendant, in the absence' of good title in his lessor. The plaintiff made no effort to prove title in his lessors. He relied solely upon his possession under leases to him from the First National Bank of Pine-ville and two individuals, Dottie Wikel and C. M. Wikel, dated,…
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