Controversies among concurrent claimants

1. Bowers and Britton own CKunit, a condominium unit in Presidential Towers as tenants in common.

a. Bowers lives there; Britton never goes there. Britton seeks rent from Bowers

b. Bowers and Britton both live there each want to sleep in the bed (not necessarily together). They quarrel over what shows to watch on the TV. They quarrel over whether to plant soybeans or corn on the back forty inches of the garden on the balcony. They sue each other to get their way. What cause(s) of action? What result(s)?

c. Bowers, being stronger and tougher, and having many thuggish friends, never lets Britton sleep in the bed, watch the TV, or enter the apartment. Britton whines piteously, pounds on the door, demands to be let in, but retreats when a thug appears. Bowers and Britton sue each other. For what? Who wins?

c. Bowers leases the unit to Stone; Britton sues for an accounting and half the rent Bowers receives from Stone

(i) Stone says to Britton, "come whenever you want; sleep in the bed, watch TV, drink the beer, cultivate the microgarden with whatever crops you want."

(ii) Stone sets up a meth lab in the unit

(iii) Stone has a Bengal Tiger and a cobra for pets

(iv) Stone sets up a nuclear-weapon-in-a-suitcase testing unit in the unit, under contract with the U. S. Department of Homeland Security, which is preoccupied with the possibility of PT becoming a terrorist haven.