Case ID: iowa_77/html/0629-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Given, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Drain v. Jacks.
    Forcible Detention of Real Estate: notice necessary to action. An action of forcible entry and detainer may be maintained against a tenant holding over after the termination of his lease, though the notice to quit, required by section 3614 of the Code, is given before the lease has expired. (Compare McLain v. Calkins, ante, p. 468.)
    
      Appeal from, Fremont District Court. — Hon. A. B. Tiiobnell, Judge.
    Filed, May 22, 1889.
    
      J&. Holmes, for appellant.
    
      Hammond <£* Campbell and Wrn. Eaton, for appellee.
   Given, C. J.

This is an action for forcible detention of a certain eighty acres of land. It is admitted that the defendant had the right to possession up to March 1, 1888. February 24, 1888, he was served with notice to quit “on or before the first day of March, 1888.” The defendant having failed to quit on or before March first, this action was brought before a justice of the peace, March 6, 1888, and appealed to the district court. On the trial in the district court, the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, “for the reason that it was not shown by the evidence that any notice to quit the premises in question was served upon the defendant after the termination of the tenancy, on the first day of March, 1888, and three days before the commencement of suit, on March 6, 1888,” to which the plaintiff excepted. This precise question was ruled upon at the present term in McLain v. Calkins, ante, p. 468, wherein we held that the notice to quit required by section 3614, Code, may be given before the expiration of the term. The action of the district court must be

Reversed