Case ID: ind-app_82/html/0491-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Nichols, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Torphy v. Ketcham.
    [No. 12,090.
    Filed February 20, 1925.]
    Landlord and Tenant.—Subtenant may be dispossessed at expiration of lease notwithstanding tender of rent.—A landlord may dispossess a subtenant who holds over after the expiration of the lease for a specific term, even though the latter tenders the rent at the rate specified in the lease.
    From Lawrence Circuit Court; James A. Cox, Judge.
    Action by Anna Ketcham against David Torphy. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      
      Robert L. Mellen, for appellant.
    
    
      Clark & Brooks, for appellee.
   Nichols, J.

Appellant occupied a part of certain real estate here involved as sublessee of the Quinn Plumbing Company, which company had leased the real estate from one Pari Ketcham, then the owner thereof. The lessor thereafter died and appellee thereby became the owner of said real estate. The lease was for three years and expired January 1, 1923. Appellant refused to surrender his possession of -said real estate at the expiration of the lease and this possessory action resulted. At the trial, appellee’s evidence sustained the foregoing facts. Appellant offered no evidence except his receipt for rental money paid to the clerk as a tender, and there was a verdict and judgment for appellee. Appellant now prosecutes this appeal assigning as error the court’s action in overruling his motion for a new trial, which presents the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury. There is no merit in this appeal.

Affirmed.