Samuel v. Boldt

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 144
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 226

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Leases—Hotels—Month to month lease— Eviction.</p> <p>One who rents a room in a hotel does not acquire the right to use the office of the hotel for advertising purposes, and the refusal of the management to permit him to put up signs in the places of public resort in the hotel is not an interference with the beneficial enjoyment of his room, in the absence of a special contract with regard to such matter.</p> <p>In an action of trespass to recover damages because of the wrongful eviction of the plaintiff from a room in a hotel, it is reversible error not to. give binding instructions for the defendant, where the evidence established that the plaintiff had leased from the defendant a room in the hotel, by the day, for a period of not longer than one month; that it was not to be used as a millinery display in tbe hotel but as a temporary accommodation for lessee’s private trade, and that although she occupied the room for more than a month she paid rent for only the first week, and used the room for a purpose provided against in the contract.</p>