Klein v. Allegheny County Health Department

Opinion

by Mb. Justice Cohen,

In this appeal we are called upon to construe Pennsylvania’s Rent Withholding Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P. L. (1965) 1534, §1, as amended, 35 P.S. §1700-1 (Supp. 1970).

Since September, 1966, Louise Brunson (tenant) has occupied one of six apartments in a building at 2505 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, owned by appellee, Stanley Klein t/a/d/b/a Mutual Real Estate Company (landlord). On June 20, 1968, pursuant to the Rent Withholding Act, the Allegheny County Health Department certified the premises as unfit for human habitation, and tenant began depositing her rental…