Keller v. Klopfer

This cause was commenced before a justice of the peace by the plaintiff’s intestate, as landlord, against the defendant as tenant, holding over after the expiration of his time, without leave, under § 5, ch. 35, R. S., to recover possession of the premises, alleged to have been demised.

The lease set up in the complaint is the lease of Barbara Keller, the plaintiff’s wife and intestate, to the defendant in 1869. The plaintiff at bar, we presume, has been substituted by the proper order, in the place of his deceased wife, although the record doés not show any suggestion of Barbara’s death, nor…