Lessee of the Mayor of Philadelphia v. President for erecting a Permanent Bridge over the River Schuylkill

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• “An assignee of a lease receives the benefit and assumes the burden of covenants running with the land.. ..This liability depends, however, on privity of estate and continues so long as the assignee holds the estate assigned to him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).