(1) The evidence does not show or tend to show that the defendant completed.any contract of hiring with-the plaintiffs. It occupied the premises without rent and with- . out any time agreed on to limit the occupation. It had in no way bound itself to become a tenant for any definite time or at any agreed price. Such an occupation is a tenancy at will. Johnson v. Johnson, 13 R. I. 467.

Under such testimony the defendant’s -requests to charge were properly refused.

Petition for new trial dismissed.