“Smith certainly has defenses to the Rivers’ claims, and those defenses may be good ones, but our reading of precedent convinces us the magistrate’s jurisdiction ends as soon as it becomes clear that there is a challenge to title and the traditional landlord-tenant relationship does not exist,” Judge Blake A. Hewitt concluded, with Judges Paula H. Thomas and Stephanie McDonald concurring.

       

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