Leighton v. Journal Printing & Publishing Co.

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 621
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 392

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Bent—Acknowledgment of indebtedness— Affidavit of defense.</p> <p>Where a tenant acknowledges in writing that he owes a certain amount for rent to his landlord, he cannot afterwards set up as a defense to the payment of this amount that prior to the date of the acknowledgment he had been evicted, and that the landlord had entered into an oral agreement to execute a new lease on the same terms as the original lease. /</p>