Hand v. Suravitz

Citations

• 148 Pa. 202
• 23 A. 1117
• 1892 Pa. LEXIS 950

Syllabus

<p>[Marked to be reported.]</p> <p>Lease — Covenant to pay gas bills or water rents.</p> <p>When a tenant covenants in Ms lease to pay gas Mils or water rents, it is an undertaking in accordance with common understanding to pay the company furnishing the gas or water. Such a covenant is as much a condition of Ms holding as any other covenant in the lease.</p> <p>Forfeiture — Breach of covenant to pay water rent.</p> <p>Where a lease contained a provision that lessee should pay gas bills and water rent, and also contained a clause of forfeiture in case lessee should not keep and perform all the terms, provisions and stipulations of the lease, or any of them, upon a failure of lessee to pay water rent, it was</p> <p>Held, That failure to pay these bills constituted a forfeiture, and justified the assignee of the lessor in entering judgment of ejectment against the lessee under the terms of the lease.</p>