Davidson v. Blumor

Citations

• 7 Daly 205

Syllabus

<p>Where the plaintiff liad orally leased premises to the defendant for the term of a year, and afterwards an agent of the plaintiff’s for collecting rent, collected a month’s rent in advance and gave a receipt therefor, which stated that the letting was for a month only and that the term would expire on the first of the next month, and the plaintiff had received the rent so collected, hut had given- no authority to the agent to give such a receipt:—Meld, the clause in the receipt as to letting for a month was not a reeissiou of the yearly renting and a new letting for a month, under which the defendant would have a right to quit the premises at the end of that month and avoid payment of further rent</p>