Riner

Action by plaintiff on account of alleged wrongful eviction from a barber-shop, by the defendants. The defendants had judgment, and the plaintiff appeals.

The record shows that the plaintiff George H. Riner was at one time running a barber-shop in the Clear Lake Highlands, Lake County, about four miles from Lower Lake. The defendant Mildred Vernon owned a vacant barbershop in Lower Lake. This property had been deeded to her by her husband, W. A. Vernon. It appears that the defendant W. A. Vernon and the plaintiff had a conversation in relation to the plaintiff renting the barber-shop in question. The barber-shop required repairs and fixing up. The negotiations between the defendant W. A. Vernon and the plaintiff George II. Riner resulted in the barbershop being offered to the plaintiff free of rent until on or about the first day of May of the following year. This appears to have been in consideration of the fact that the plaintiff, who undertook the repair and fixing up of the barber-shop, would have to expend considerable money. On or about August 21, 1930, the plaintiff, after spending some $200 in fixing up the barber-shop, took possession thereof and conducted the business…