Dwyer v. Carroll

Gibson, C.

This appeal is brought by the defendant from a judgment entered upon a verdict for five hundred dollars, rendered against him in an action of trespass prosecuted by plaintiff; also from an order, made therein, denying him a new trial. The plaintiff, in his complaint, alleged that, by virtue of a lease from the defendant, he was the tenant, and, as such, was in the possession of certain premises on Mission Street, in San Francisco, known as the Union Hotel, which he used in carrying on the business of keeping an hotel, from the first day of February, 1886, until the tenth day of…