Hazlett v. Powell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of replevin by Robert F. Hazlett and Robert M. Slaymaker against John Hare Powell and William G-arrigues. The defendant Powell, and Garrigues, as his bailiff, avowed the taking of the goods as a distress for rent in arrear, to which the plaintiffs pleaded an eviction.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action of replevin by Robert F. Hazlett and Robert M. Slaymaker against John Hare Powell and William G-arrigues. The defendant Powell, and Garrigues, as his bailiff, avowed the taking of the goods as a distress for rent in arrear, to which the plaintiffs pleaded an eviction. On the 12th May 1853, John Hare Powell demised and leased to the plaintiffs below a messuage and building, called the Columbia House, and ground thereto belonging, situate on the north side of Chestnut street, between Delaware Sixth and Seventh streets, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
— The property which passed by the express terms of this lease was the lot of ground on which the “ Columbia Hotel” was erected, to the extent of its boundaries, with dominion upwards and downwards, ad infinitum, “ cujus est solum, ejus usque ad coelum, ad inferos,” together with the messuages, buildings, and fixtures on it, or appurtenant to it.
If the plaintiffs in error are entitled to an apportionment of the rent, it is because some covenant of the landlord has failed, in regard to some portion of the premises, by reason of which the…
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