Kroll v. Philadelphia

Citations

• 240 Pa. 131
• 87 A. 292
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 642

Syllabus

<p>Principal and agent — Proof of agency — Declaration of agent— Landlord and tenant — Lease.</p> <p>Where a city purchases and demolishes a building, and thereafter is sued by an alleged tenant claiming damages for the loss of his leasehold in a portion of the building, the plaintiff cannot recover where his only evidence is a written lease containing no recitals of ownership and signed by a person merely as agent, with no evidence that the person signing was the agent of the owner, except the declarations of the alleged agent himself.</p>