Kroll v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 247, Jan. T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Philadelpbia Co., March T., 1911, No. 3766, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Harry Kroll and Isadore Cooper, trading as Kroll & Cooper, v. Philadelphia. Trespass to recover damages for' an alleged unlawful eviction. Before Barratt, J. At the trial it appeared that the city purchased a building belonging to the Baker Building and Loan Association, and subsequently demolished it.
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Appeal, No. 247, Jan. T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Philadelpbia Co., March T., 1911, No. 3766, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Harry Kroll and Isadore Cooper, trading as Kroll & Cooper, v. Philadelphia. Trespass to recover damages for' an alleged unlawful eviction. Before Barratt, J. At the trial it appeared that the city purchased a building belonging to the Baker Building and Loan Association, and subsequently demolished it. The plaintiffs occupied certain rooms in the building as a barber shop. At the trial they offered in evidence a lease for such rooms…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
This was an action for the recovery of damages for an alleged unlawful eviction from premises which the plaintiffs claimed they held under a valid and subsisting lease. The premises consisted of a single room, a barber shop, on the first floor of -a building used and occupied as a public hotel. The ownership of the entire *134property at the time plaintiffs entered under their lease was in the Baker Building & Loan Association. Subsequently, in December, 1909, and during the occupancy of the barber shop by the plaintiffs, the building association sold and conveyed…
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