Commonwealth v. Peterman

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

On appeal from a summary proceeding brought under the Act of Assembly approved April 14, 1905, P. L. 169 (18 PS §3311), the court of quarter sessions found the appellant guilty of willfully trespassing upon lands which the owners had caused to be posted by printed notices warning persons from trespassing thereon.

The evidence discloses that the agent for the B. E. Whitmoyer Estate, under written agreement, dated April 1,1935, leased a farm in Columbia County, for the term of one year, to the appellant, who took immediate possession thereof and, with the consent of the…