Sanders v. Keenan

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is an action in unlawful detainer brought by the appellant, Margaret Gr. Sanders, in March, 1966, to recover possession of a farm in Yell county. The two defendants — Robert Keenan, who was Mrs. Sanders’s tenant under a written one-year lease which expired on December 31, 1965, and Delma Merritt, who was Keenan’s subtenant — retained possession of the land during the year 1966 by executing a bond for retention of the property. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 34-1510 (Repl. 1962). In the court below Mrs. Sanders obtained a $5,000 verdict and judgment against Merritt only. Her…