Morris v. Guffey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 171, Oct. T., 1898, by-plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Greene Co., April T., 1896, No. 227, on verdict for defendants.
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Appeal, No. 171, Oct. T., 1898, by-plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Greene Co., April T., 1896, No. 227, on verdict for defendants. Assumpsit to recover instalments claimed to be due on a written oil lease dated March 20, 1894. At the trial the evidence for the plaintiff tended to show that, at the instance of A. W. Campbell, an agent of the defendants, plaintiff signed a lease for the oil and gas in a tract of land which he was about to purchase, and to which he subsequently took title by deed from his father; that the only copy of the lease liad been left in the hands of the agent,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Morris, the plaintiff, averred that he had leased to defend*538ants, by a writing dated March 20, 1894, the oil on a tract of eighty-one acres of land in Center township, Greene county; the lease was to run for two years at a monthly rental of $50.00, payable monthly; the amount claimed to be due at the date of suit was, computing interest, $1,269. The land had belonged to John Morris, father of plaintiff, who had resided on it, but several years before the date of the lease had removed to Kansas, leaving his son, the plaintiff, in possession as his tenant. The land…
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