In Brief
A widow holding a life interest in property under a will created a tenancy for a shop. The owners after her death sought to evict the tenant by claiming he became a trespasser upon her death. The Supreme Court held that a life-interest holder can validly create a tenancy as an incident of generating rental income. A tenant inducted by such a holder acquires statutory protection under rent control legislation, which survives the death of the life-interest holder. The statutory status of the tenant can only be terminated through eviction proceedings under rent control law, not by a suit for possession treating the tenant as a trespasser.
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