Trans-Fuel, Inc. v. Saylor

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

The question in this matter is whether a lease for a service station from the appellants to the appellee fuel company (as lessee) and the leaseback from the appellee to the appellants are severable or are so interdependent that the rescission of one amounts to a surrender of rights under the other.

The following statement of facts is contained in the opinion of the court below:

“In 1959, the defendants, Thomas Saylor, and his wife, Diane, were the owners of a piece of vacant ground at Easton Road and Columbia Avenue, Horsham Township, which they wanted to develop…