(Download) "Mcfarland v. Stewart" by Cumberland Supreme Court of Maine # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mcfarland v. Stewart
- Author : Cumberland Supreme Court of Maine
- Release Date : January 02, 1946
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The issue which the defendant in this case brings forward on exceptions involves the negligible sum of $15 but a principle of law which would be of considerable importance under any circumstances and is made increasingly so because tenancies of real estate are subject to a governmental control that may continue tenants in possession against the will of the owner of the property they occupy for substantial if not indeterminate periods. Baldly stated that issue is whether a tenant at sufferance may occupy property free of charge. The case presents the unusual if not the unique situation of having been tried, i. e. submitted to the Court below, on an oral agreed statement of facts. Under those circumstances surely neither party can assert the claim that the facts are not exactly as the Justice who decided the case without the intervention of a jury declared them. The right of exceptions on questions of law was reserved to the parties so that the issue as to whether the proper law has been applied to those facts is squarely presented.