Danziger v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 41. Debt by Mrs. S. D. Williams against Morris H. Danziger to recover the second quarter’s rent claimed to be due on an alleged parol lease. A suit had been previously brought against Danziger to recover the first quarter’s rent on this alleged parol lease.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 41. Debt by Mrs. S. D. Williams against Morris H. Danziger to recover the second quarter’s rent claimed to be due on an alleged parol lease. A suit had been previously brought against Danziger to recover the first quarter’s rent on this alleged parol lease. In that case the defendant entered no plea, but filed an affidavit of defence denying the agreement for a lease or the occupancy of the premises. A rule for arbitration was taken, and by an agreement filed the “arbitration shall be final…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
This was an action of debt, brought to recover the second quarter’s rent upon an alleged lease of a building for one year, at a rental of $1600, payable quarterly in advance; the rent in controversy falling due July 1st 1877. By agreement filed, jury trial was dispensed with, and the case submitted to the court under the Act of Assembly
The defendant pleaded in bar a former action between the same parties, in the same court (see preceding case), for which a prior quarter’s rent, under the same lease, had been demanded, and in which there was an award of arbitrators in his favor, unappealed…
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