Hohly v. German Reformed Society
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lehigh county. March 18. — The German Reformed and German Lutheran Societies gave notice to Hohly to quit the premises, which he held as tenant from year to year.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lehigh county. March 18. — The German Reformed and German Lutheran Societies gave notice to Hohly to quit the premises, which he held as tenant from year to year. Three months afterwards they made their complaint by a committee, before two justices, setting forth their title in trustees, and “ That several years since a certain George Hohly was permitted by the congregations aforesaid, to possess and occupy the said premises as tenant at will, as part consideration for his services to be rendered in the said congregations, as foresinger and organist, and that he…
1Opinion of the CourtGibson, C. J.
— This court certainly went far in Shaffer v. Sutton, by ruling that payment of taxes, and the chinking and daubing of a house, was a certain rent within the purview of the act of 1772. It was held in Scott v. Fuller, 3 Penna. 55, that the quantity, quality, and duration of the rent need not be specified; but it was said in Steele v. Thompson, 3 Penna. 34, that the landlord and tenant act was intended for plain and simple cases, in which the rent and the nature of the tenure are certain; in accordance with which, it was ruled in Scott v. Fuller, that the service of taking care of the lessor’s…
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