Acheson ex rel. Armstrong Coal, Coke & Iron Co. v. Kittanning Consolidated Natural Gas Co.

Citations

• 8 Pa. Super. 477
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 81

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — -Trivitij of contract and estate.</p> <p>A corporation rented certain gas lands and subsequently assigned its leasehold interest to R. The lessee company was finally merged, with other companies, into defendant corporation. The charter of merger providing that all obligations of each constituent company should be assumed by the consolidated, the interest of the legal plaintiff, the original lessor, by several assignments passed to the equitable plaintiff. In an action against the consolidated company for rent unpaid since the assignment by the first lessee, held, that a verdict was properly directed for defendant, there being neither privity of contract nor estate between the equitable plaintiff and defendant.</p>