Harding v. Seeley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1892, by plaintiffs, Catherine B. Harding et al., from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1890, No. 100, on verdict for defendants, George H. Seeley et al. Assumpsit for rent alleged to be due.
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Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1892, by plaintiffs, Catherine B. Harding et al., from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1890, No. 100, on verdict for defendants, George H. Seeley et al. Assumpsit for rent alleged to be due. On the trial before Biddle, J., it appeared that the plaintiff’s testator made a written lease to defendants which provided, so far as it is material, that the tenants should hold “ for the term of one year from the first day of January, 1887, at the rent of $2,100 per annum, payable quarterly, with the privilege of four years’ additional lease from the first day of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Heydbiok,
It is not doubted that the contract out of which the present controversy grew, gave the defendants an option for an additional term of four years ; nor that some kind of notice to the landlord of their election was necessary, on the one hand, to secure to them the enjoyment of the term, and, on the other hand, to bind them for the payment of the rent. But whether the mere continuance of the tenants’ occupancy after the expiration of the term certain was sufficient notice, is a question which does not appear to have ever been decided in this state. It is,…
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