MISS. STATE DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. HOWIE

No. 54767.

449 So.2d 772 (1984)

MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, State Capitol Commission and State of Mississippi v. Homer Lee Howie.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall L. Miller, Jimmy G. Dedeaux, William Patterson, Jackson, for appellant.

Robert W. King, King & Spencer, Alfred N. Crisler, Crisler & Crisler, Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and HAWKINS and DAN M. LEE, JJ.


DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County wherein the chancellor found that the appellant, the Mississippi State Department of Public Welfare, was a holdover tenant on certain properties leased to it by the appellee, Homer Lee Howie. The chancellor ruled that by holding over, the Department had extended the lease for a period of one year and that Howie was entitled to rent payments for that period. The chancellor...

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