Rittenhouse Regency Affiliates v. Passen

OPINION

WIEAND, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer to a counterclaim. The counterclaim was filed by a tenant in response to her landlord’s action for accelerated rent which became due when the tenant vacated the apartment prematurely.

Gloria Passen was tenant and Rittenhouse Regency Affiliates, a limited partnership, was lessor under the terms of a written apartment lease having a term of two years. The tenant discontinued the payment of rent when she vacated the apartment at the end of the first year. The lessor thereupon…