Rice v. Pinney

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the provision in a deed of trust that made defaulting grantor a tenant at sufferance was valid and able to support a forcible detainer action
• holding that notwithstanding its grant of general jurisdiction over title to land, a statutory county court has no jurisdiction to adjudicate title to real estate in a de novo trial following an appeal of a forcible detainer suit from justice court
• stating that possession is only issue in forcible-detainer suit and plaintiff need not prove title
• stating that an appeal in a forcible detainer action is to the county court
• demonstrating that the landlord-tenant relationship arose from a provision in the underlying deed of trust establishing a tenancy at sufferance should the encumbered property be sold and the grantor did not immediately vacate the property
• demonstrating that the landlord-tenant relationship arose from a provision in the underlying deed of trust establishing a tenancy at sufferance should the encumbered property be sold and the grantor did not immediately vacate the property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).