Wolf v. Studebaker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: Of May Term 1870, No. 45. This was an action of assumpsit, brought April 22d 1867, by William Wolf against Nancy Studebaker. The cause of action was the breach of a contract of leasing of the farm of the defendant to the plaintiff.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: Of May Term 1870, No. 45. This was an action of assumpsit, brought April 22d 1867, by William Wolf against Nancy Studebaker. The cause of action was the breach of a contract of leasing of the farm of the defendant to the plaintiff. The case was tried November 20th 1867, before Graham, P. J. The plaintiff proved a verbal contract, by which the defendant agreed, about the 1st of September 1866, to/ lease her farm to him on the shares, with some minor stipulations, for one year, commencing on the succeeding 1st of April: that he went with…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, July 7th 1870, by
Thompson, C. J.
We have no question before us involving the fact of an agreement between the plaintiff and defendant, by which the latter agreed to let to the former, on the shares, her farm for one year, from the 1st of April 1867. The verdict has settled that fact in favor of the plaintiff. The only question before us, therefore, is that relating to damages for the breach of the contract to give possession by the defendant.
The plaintiff claimed to recover the value of his contract, that is to say, what he might reasonably have made out…
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