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Show EVICTED TENANT HAS HIS LANDLORD AND OWNER JAILED LOS ANGELES. Pee. IS. A landlord and a property owner were sentenced in a police court here Tuesday to serve forty dajs each In the city Jail for having tl 1st orbed the peace of a tenant by forcibly evicting him. Sam BofelH brought action against A. J- Edmonson, the land-i land-i lord, and E. V. Graves, owner of the property tlorelU occupied, fin-having fin-having nailed up the doors and windows of th" house before the thirty days had expired after serving ser-ving the tenant with notice of rent increase. ' This,-' said Police Judge Hugh Crawford, in passing sentence, "Is a flagrant case of a landlord and proprietor taking poss. :-.-ion of a Uenaut's rooms without due legal process." E. A. Elehelberger, accused of having assisted In the eviction, was fined ffcO, |