Plowden v. Hall

1. Where landlord has accepted from the tenant a check for the payment of rent for the ensuing period, the landlord can not, while retaining the cheek and failing to present it to the bank, dispute the tenant’s right to possession of the premises for such period, upon the ground of the non-payment of rent because of a non-payment of the check. English v. McDowall, 82 S. C. 282 (64 S. E. 390).

2. Notwithstanding a tenant may be subject to Summary dispossession for - non-payment of rent, yet where the landlord accepts from the tenant a payment for rent in advance for a period immediately…