Gallagher v. Burke
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 23, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1891, No. 541, on verdict for plaintiffs. Opinion by W. W. Porter, J. Trespass for forcible dispossession of premises occupied under lease. The facts appear in the following portions of the charge of the court.
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Appeal, No. 23, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1891, No. 541, on verdict for plaintiffs. Opinion by W. W. Porter, J. Trespass for forcible dispossession of premises occupied under lease. The facts appear in the following portions of the charge of the court. This action .... was brought to recover damages alleged by the plaintiffs to have been sustained by them in the alleged suspension of their .business, the injur}1" to their business credit, their loss of certain property and their inability to procure a place in which to conduct further business,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
William W. Porter, J.,
The assignments of error are four in number. The first is to a part of the charge. If anything is clear in this case it is that it turns on the question, whether there was an extension of the lease between the parties as to the part of the property used as adiquor store-room. So the trial judge rightly said, and submitted the question of fact to the jury for decision. But little stress is laid upon the first assignment. We dismiss it.
It is claimed by the second assignment that the presentation made by the, portion of the charge therein quoted excludes the…
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