Clark v. Board of License & Inspections Review

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Betty J. Parrish, Lillian Allen and Edith Howard (tenants) appeal from a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court order releasing escrowed rental payments to Milton Clark (landlord). We affirm.

On December 27, 1972, the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections declared premises situate at 136 South 54th Street, Philadelphia, unfit for habitation.1 Tenants began to deposit rental payments to an escrow account in accordance with the Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1534, as amended, 35 P.S. 1700-1, which provides for release of escrowed rent to the landlord if the…