Prescott v. Otterstatter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1877, Nos. 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122 and 123. These were actions of replevin. The plaintiff in error, who was the plaintiff below, occupied a three-story building in Meadville, known as the National Hotel.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1877, Nos. 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122 and 123. These were actions of replevin. The plaintiff in error, who was the plaintiff below, occupied a three-story building in Meadville, known as the National Hotel. He declined to renew his lease for another year, unless the landlord, defendant in error, would build an additional story to extend fifty feet from the west end of it, and would tear down the old porches and make hall-ways. This he agreed to do, and a lease containing the agreement was executed. By…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The first six assignments of error refer to the instructions given in the general charge, and in answer to points submitted in relation to the right of the landlord to recover rent without having completed the improvements he covenanted to make, according to the terms of the lease. It is unnecessary to consider them seriatim. Taking some of them singly and alone, they might perhaps be sustained, but when considered in connection with the general charge and the leading facts of the case as therein stated, we are satisfied that the learned judge was correct, and that the case was fairly and…
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