Eareckson v. Hoyt

Citations

• 58 Pa. Super. 531
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 345

Syllabus

<p>Contract—Written instrument—Parol evidence—Landlord and tenant— Lease. *</p> <p>An affidavit of defense is no't a sufficient answer to a claim for rent of the months of November and December, 1913, under a written lease for one year from November 1, 1912, at 1420 a year “payable monthly” in sums of 135.00, rent to begin from January 1, 1913, and the lease to continue from year to year, where such affidavit alleges an oral agreement that the rent on renewals should be $350 a year in ten monthly installments omitting the months of November and December, without any averment of fraud, accident or mistake as to the omission of the alleged oral agreement.</p>