Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Stuckey

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. J. Strom Thurmond, Acting Associate Justice.

This case involves the dispossession of a tenant holding over after the alleged expiration of his lease under Section 8813 of the Code, as amended by Act No. Í04, Acts of 1939, 41 St. at Large, p. 151. It originated in a magistrate’s Court in Sumter County and resulted in a verdict for. the respondent, the landlord, by direction of the Court.

The record discloses that a formal notice to show cause, dated January 8, 1940, based on the verified petition of the landlord, respondent herein, containing…