Recovery of Premises (56)
HELD:
"Now According to Wharton's Law Lexicon (14th Edn.) at p. 652:
HELD:
"... It is now well settled, by decided cases of this Court that for the purposes of the Rent Control and Recovery of Premises, the law recognises only two classes of tenants.
HELD:
"In point of law and of fact, once there is an incident of statutory tenancy, the tenant becomes a weekly, monthly or yearly tenant, depending upon the term of the original grant.
HELD:
"... A tenant who enters upon premises by reason of a contract with the landlord is a contractual tenant.
HELD:
"... Now, a tenancy at sufferance is one in which the original grant by the landlord to the tenant has expired, usually by effluxion of time, but the tenant holds over the premises.
HELD:
"...Another reason relied upon for not giving the defendants a notice of determination of the tenancy was that the tenancy of the defendants with the previous landlords had expired.
HELD:
"...When the evidence of the parties is related to each and read along with the facts pleaded by the plaintiff and admitted by the defendants on the pleadings, the picture that emerges may be stated thus:
HELD:
"The defendants have also contended that the award of N150, 000.00 per annum as mesne profit was wrong.