Byne v. Byne
Byne v. Byne
Opinion of the Court
This was a bill filed by the complainant against the defendants, Edmund Byne and Louis H. Routzahn, alleging that the defendants have entered upon and are in possession of his land, and refuse to move away; that he rented the land to Routzahn for the year 1873, but declined to rent it to him for another year. At the beginning of the year 1874 Edmund Byne, the other defendant, moved his family there, and both defendants and their families are living upon the land, contrary to the wishes of complainant, and refuse to move away, both denying that they hold the premises under him; that he sued out a warrant against Routzahn as a tenant holding over; that he filéd a counter-affidavit, and the proceedings have been returned to the superior court, and complainant is unable to obtain possession of his property; that said defendants threaten violence to complainant and his tenants, and prevent him from the cultivation of his said land, etc., to his great damage and irreparable injury, and that said defendants are insolvent. Wherefore he prayed that the defendants might be enjoined and restrained from any interference with the use and occupation by complainant and his servants of the “Pond field” and the “Henry Byne place,” and from committing any further disturbance or waste thereon. The presiding judge granted an order to show cause why the injunction prayed for should not be granted, and in-the meantime granted a restraining order until the hearing thereof. The defendants answered the bill, denying the complainants’ title to the
Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.
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