Lesley v. Randolph
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs in error, Robert Lesley and William Meredith, trading under the firm of Lesley Sp Meredith, were defendants below, in an action brought against them by the defendant in error, George F. Randolph, to recover part of a year’s rent claimed under the circumstances set forth in the following case stated : CASE STATED.
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This was a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs in error, Robert Lesley and William Meredith, trading under the firm of Lesley Sp Meredith, were defendants below, in an action brought against them by the defendant in error, George F. Randolph, to recover part of a year’s rent claimed under the circumstances set forth in the following case stated : CASE STATED. “ The plaintiff as owner of the store or warehouse No. 241 High street, irrthe city of Philadelphia, leased the same to the defendants on the 23rd day of April, 1828, according to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
It has been contended for the plaintiffs in error, that the agreement under which they took the warehouse, amounted only to a specific letting for one year, and no more; and that according to the decisions of this court, in the cases of Boggs v. Black, 1 Binn. 335, and Logan v. Herron, 8 Serg. & Rawle, 459, they became immediately upon the expiration of the year, to wit, the 23rd of April 1829, tenants at sufferance, liable to be turned out of possession at will of the defendants in error; and were not bound therefore to pay for the use of…
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