Non-payment

He evicted the existing tenants by taking them to court for non-payment of back rent.

[...] it appeared that in 1909 the Excess Insurance Company bought the right to recover certain sums of money due from the light railway company, and, on non-payment, secured the appointment of a Receiver in respect of the undertaking and assets of the company.

In one case at least the land on which a station was built seems to have been rented, as it is recorded that in November, 1868, a certain Mr. Rice Thomas threatened to eject the Carnarvonshire Railway from its Pant [Pant Glas] Station for non-payment of rent!