Real Estate Loan Co. v. Pugh

1. Where a landlord, without the tenant’s consent and before the expiration of the term, enters upon the rented premises without authority of law and forcibly evicts the tenant and rents the premises to another, and in so doing takes possession of the tenant’s effects, and in moving them damages them, the landlord thereby commits an inexcusable trespass against the tenant, whereby the tenant’s home and abode is broken up and destroyed. In a suit by the tenant against the landlord to recover damages for such tortious eviction, where the evidence authorizes the jury to infer that the tortious…