Lichtenthaler v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. By the writ of error returned from the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, where the plaintiff in error, Albert Lilchtenthaler was plaintiff below, the case appeared to be as follows: On the 1st April, 1818, Jacob Kline, guardian of Albert Lichtenthaler and other children of M. Litchtenthaler, deceased, leased a farm in Mifflin county to Samuel Miller, for one year at the rent of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and Miller entered into possession.
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IN ERROR. By the writ of error returned from the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county, where the plaintiff in error, Albert Lilchtenthaler was plaintiff below, the case appeared to be as follows: On the 1st April, 1818, Jacob Kline, guardian of Albert Lichtenthaler and other children of M. Litchtenthaler, deceased, leased a farm in Mifflin county to Samuel Miller, for one year at the rent of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and Miller entered into possession. On the 31st December, 1818, Albert Lichtenthaler made another lease to Miller of the same property at the same rent, from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, J.
The particular provisions of the act of the 21 st of March, 1772, which are applicable to the point before us, are taken from the statute 8 Anne c. 14, by which it was enacted, *158that landlords might destrain within six months next after the expiration of the lease, (a thing that could not be done at the common law) and that goods liable to distress should not be taken in execution without paying the arrears to the landlord, not exceeding the rent of one year. Bac. Abr. Rent, K. (in note.) The object of these provisions was to enable the…
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