Martin v. Medlin

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Constru ing the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff, as must be done on a motion for a nonsuit, it appears that the defendant rented the premises in 1938 from the plaintiff’s mother; that the plaintiff was neither the landlord nor the owner of the property until the death of her mother in July, 1946; that after the death of the plaintiff’s mother the defendant recognized the plaintiff as her landlord, and that she was at that time, and until she bought her sister’s interest, a half owner of the premises. There is no evidence whatever from which it…