Action for rent begun before a justice of the peace. The defendant denied plaintiff's title and lease, and the justice properly dismissed the action. The Code, sections 836, 837; Hahn v. Guilford, 87 N.C. 172. The judge below should have taken the same course. The litigation over the title and tenancy were before us at this term, Hodge v. Hudson, post, 358.
Action dismissed.
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