Juliano v. Strong

PRICE, Judge:

Appellant, Mabel Strong, appeals from that portion of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County directing that rental payments escrowed pursuant to the Rent Withholding Act1 (hereinafter “the Act”) should be paid to appellee, John Juliano, appellant’s landlord at the time of the instant dispute. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the subject order.

On May 15, 1979, appellant was advised that she was eligible to withhold rent because the apartment in which she was a tenant was unfit for human habitation. Being without the financial means to bring the apartment…