Curtis v. Meadows

Williams, Judge :

Plaintiff brought this action of unlawful entry and detainer to recover possession of a tract of land described in the summons by metes and bounds. The court sustained defendant’s motion to exclude plaintiff’s evidence, directed a verdict for defendant and entered judgment thereon; and plaintiff brings error.

The principal point urged by his counsel in support of the alleged error in excluding his evidence and directing a verdict is, that it was proven by the uncontradieted testimony of plaintiff’s witnesses that defendant, by force and arms, ousted *24him, and that, therefore,…