Manufacturers Light & Heat Co. v. Thompson

Citations

• 54 Pa. Super. 558
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 104

Syllabus

<p>Principal and surety — Agreement to pay for gas — Gas used by tenant— Acceptance of promise.</p> <p>Where a landlord writes to a gas company that his tenant, whom he names, as the occupant of a particular house, is now using the gas of the company and states that the tenant is. responsible for his bills, “and in case of his failure to pay the same, I will pay them for him,” such writing signed by the landlord is a contract of suretyship and needs no formal notice of acceptance by the gas company.</p>