Nulton v. Campbell
Nulton v. Campbell
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The pleadings are necessary to an understanding of this ease. They are not printed. Our Rule 24 is, therefore, yio
The case is an important one, however, and is clearly distinguishable from cases cited by the appellants, even upon the meager testimony offered in the court below and the incomplete manner in which it is presented to us.
Defendant leased from plaintiff the personal property in a hotel for the term of four years from the date of the lease, upon the condition that she should pay to the lessor #5,050: “#1,000 cash; #1,050 inside of one year; #1,000 inside of two years; #1,000 inside of three years, and #1,000 within four years from date of lease, June 29, 1897.” The defendant entered into possession of the property and retained it until August of the following year, when it was surrendered to the plaintiff and removed by him. Tire time in August is not fixed. Whether before or after suit brought does not appear. The terms upon which the surrender was made and the property removed are not stated. There is an allegation that there was a contemporaneous agreement by the terms of which the defendant was to be entitled to the property, upon the payment of the last instalment of rent, but no such agreement appears in the testimony and, so far as the case is presented to us, it rested entirely upon the agreement above referred to, which is a lease, pure and simple. The rent for which suit was brought accrued and was payable prior to June 29, 1898. The plaintiff had a right to sue for the ■ same on that day. He undoubtedly could have released his right to this rent when the property was delivered to him but there is nothing in the testimony to show that he did so and no offer, to prove such an understanding, was made. The case, as presented to us, therefore, differs materially from Campbell v. Hickok, 140 Pa. 290. If there were facts which would have brought it within the principles therein decided, they do not appear. Plaintiff ■ surrendered no rights under his agreement by accept
It is true, as contended for by the appellant, that there is no express promise to pay the rent, but the obligation to pay is clearly to be inferred from, the terms of the lease. There is no analogy between the lease in this case and the oil and gas leases construed in Glasgow v. Chartiers Oil Co., 152 Pa. 48, and McKee v. Colwell, 7 Pa. Superior Ct. 607.
The judgment is affirmed.
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