Tinder v. Davis

— The appellees recovered judgment against the appellant Delilah Tinder and one Roach, for the use and occupation of a house in Danville. Roach has declined to join in the appeal. The appellant claims that the verdict against her is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and that the court erred in giving and refusing instructions to the jury.

There is no essential conflict in the evidence. It shows that Mary Davis owned the house until March, 1880, when she died intestate, leaving the appellees her only heirs at law; that in 1878 Mary Davis leased the property to Roach for one year; that…