Boice v. Zimmerman

Citations

• 3 Pa. Super. 181
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 126

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Lease—Parol evidence to define the leased property.</p> <p>When an inspection of a lease does not disclose a self-contained description of the property intended to be leased, and something outside the description itself is necessary to determine just what is included in its terms, parol evidence is admissible to apply the description in the lease to the land intended to be included therein.</p> <p>Landlord and, tenant — Lease—Construction of — Evidence.</p> <p>The question whether certain tenant houses were included in the farm premises intended to be leased, being the subject of parol evidenpe to define the purport of the written lease, evidence as to the respective rental values of the farm and the tenant houses was admissible, as bearing on the issue which was, — what was actually rented; and the instruction of the court was pi'oper, which directed the consideration of the jury to the theoiy of the case as affected by such rental values of the tenant houses and the farm, as bearing upon the probability of the former having been included in the premises intended to have been let.</p> <p>Practice, Superior Court — Assignments of error — Isolated sentences.</p> <p>Isolated and disjointed sentences and parts of sentences from an entire paragraph, which should be read as a whole, should not be assigned for error, as they do not fairly represent the substance of what was said by the court.</p>