Williams v. Treece

NORTON!, J.

This is a suit in unlawful detainer. The finding and judgment were for defendant and plaintiff prosecutes the appeal.

The subject-matter in controversy is the possession of forty acres of land lying partly in, and partly adjacent to, Cushion Lake in Pemiscot county. Defendant is a hunter and fisherman by occupation and the evidence for plaintiff tends to prove that he let the premises to him for that purpose in the early part of the year 1906. Defendant denies the letting in toto, and says that, though he pitched his tent on the bank of the lake and resided on the premises for a…