Case ID: ky_29/html/0602-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Robertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Trabue vs. Talbot.
    October 25.
    Error to the Bourbon Circuit; Richard French, Judge.
    
      Forcible entry and detainer. Disseisin. Landlord and tenant.
    
    Case 163.
    Landlord cannot maintain a warrant of forcible entry or detainer against a dis-seizor of his tenant.
    When a tenant is dissei-zed, he alone, and not the landlord, is entitled to a warrant of forcible entry or detainer against the disseizor.
    
      T. Crittenden, for plaintiff.
   Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question presented in this case is, whether a landlord can maintain a «'arrant of forcible entry or detainer against a disseisor of his tenant.

We have no doubt that the tenant alone, would be entitled to the warrant. Though the possession of the tenant is, in contemplation of law, the possession of the landlord, yet the tenant alone is, during his exclusive tenure, actually possessed: He alone can sue,in trespass, for an intrusion on the possession; and consequently he would be entitled to the restitution of possession after disseizin; and the landlord could not maintain a warrant in his own name: Vanhorne and wife vs. Tilly, I. Monroe, 52.

As the opinion of the circuit court and the verdict and judgment are conformable to the foregoing view,the judgment must be affirmed.