Indiana Supreme Court December 15, 1858 (Layman v. Throp)

Davison, J.

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace, and is founded upon the statute relative to the “unlawful detention of lands,” &c. Section 1 of that statute enacts, “ That, whenever in pursuance of legal notice, ór otherwise, any landlord, or his legal representa*353tive, shall be entitled to possession of lands, he may, by himself or his agent, have any tenant who shall