Hollis v. Brown

Citations

• 159 Pa. 539
• 28 A. 360
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 890

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Untenantable premises — Affidavit of defence.</p> <p>An affidavit of defence in an action for rent of a dwelling house is insufficient to prevent judgment which avers “ that in the winter defendants discovered that the premises were in a wholly unfit and uninhabitable condition, owing to the defective construction of the drainage; and being informed by their physician that it was dangerous to their lives to remain, they removed from the said premises as soon as the critical condition of the health of one of the defendants permitted her to be removed, and had they not vacated the premises the board of health would have required them to do so.”</p>