Beale v. House of Refuge

Citations

• 61 Pa. Super. 30
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 262

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Subletting—New lease — Evidence.</p> <p>Where a tenant sublets rooms in the property leased to a corporation giving the latter the right to terminate the subletting on sixty days’ notice, and the son of the tenant after his father’s death continues to collect the rent until the sublessee gives the sixty days’ notice and quits, the son cannot thereafter collect rent from the corporation under a claim that he had made a new verbal lease with it for a subletting from year to year, if he fails to establish the existence of such verbal lease by competent evidence.</p>