Marsh
Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank v. Marsh
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Conrey, J.
Action in unlawful detainer. A trial was had of the issues between plaintiff and appellant, the other defendants having suffered default. At the time of the trial appellant surrendered the leased premises to the plaintiff. Judgment was entered against appellant for the rent for the time covered by Ms occupancy, from which judgment defendant Rabin has appealed.
Appellant contends that the judgment against Mm should he reversed for the reason that there was no finding that the relation of landlord and tenant existed between the plaintiff and appellant, and that there was no evidence in the record to support the finding that appellant entered the premises on May 20, 1918, under an assignment of the lease theretofore executed by the plaintiff to Marsh and Bracken. The complaint alleged and it is admitted that the record proves that on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1918, the plaintiff executed to Albert L. Marsh and Bertram Bracken a three-year lease of the premises described in the complaint. The lessees went into possession on the tenth day of February following the date of the lease. The complaint alleged that appellant and two other defendants “claim some interest in said…