Beyer v. Fenstermacher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county, in which William Beyer brought an action of replevin against William Fenstermacher and George Plortz.
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh county, in which William Beyer brought an action of replevin against William Fenstermacher and George Plortz. Fenstermacher avowed for rent in arrear; .and issue being joined on this question, the cause came on for trial before Judge Banks on the 1st of September 1836, when the defendant gave in evidence a written lease executed by himself and the plaintiff, dated in the month of February 1834, by which he demised to the plaintiff a certain house and lot for the term of one year at the rent of $150 “ payable quarter-yearly; the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was-delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The two first errors assigned may be considered tr aether, as they present the same question, whether a tenant has a right to set-off a debt, owing to him by his landlord, against the rent which he owes to the landlord, and for which the latter has distrained. It may, however, be proper to notice, first, that it was *98alleged, by the plaintiff, that the note mentioned in the first bill of exceptions, was taken up and paid by him at the instance of the defendant, who agreed, as he says, to allow him the amount thereof out of the rent; but then,…
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