Weber v. Rorer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 133, July T., 1891, by plain tiff, A. M. Weber, from judgment of C. P. Montgomery Co., March T., 1890, No. 131, on verdict for defendant, Clinton Rorer, bailiff for Paul Jacoby. Replevin. Defendant pleaded “no rent in arrears.” At the trial, before Weand, J., the evidence was to the effect that Paul Jacoby leased to plaintiff a farm, by a written lease, dated March 10, 1886, for a yearly rent of $300 payable in quarterly instalments of $75 each.
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Appeal, No. 133, July T., 1891, by plain tiff, A. M. Weber, from judgment of C. P. Montgomery Co., March T., 1890, No. 131, on verdict for defendant, Clinton Rorer, bailiff for Paul Jacoby. Replevin. Defendant pleaded “no rent in arrears.” At the trial, before Weand, J., the evidence was to the effect that Paul Jacoby leased to plaintiff a farm, by a written lease, dated March 10, 1886, for a yearly rent of $300 payable in quarterly instalments of $75 each. Plaintiff claimed that there was no rent due, as he had made overpayments in previous quarters, which more than offset the amount of the…
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Me. Justice McCollum,
A. M. Weber occupied a farm of Paul Jacoby from the first of April, 1886, to April 1, 1890, under a lease reserving an annual rent of three hundred dollars, payable quarterly. On the fourth of February, 1890, Jacoby, alleging that there was $145.70 rent in arrear on the first of January preceding, issued *490a warrant to Clinton Rorer, sheriff of Montgomery county, authorizing him to collect the same by distraining the goods and chattels of the tenant or other person or persons, found on the demised premises. The goods and chattels of Weber were accordingly levied…
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