Shoop v. Fee

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 585
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 240

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Removal of goods — Violation of covenant — Goods of a third person — Attorney’s commissions.</p> <p>1. A provision in a lease that the entire rent for the balance of the term should become due and payable if the tenant removed or attempted to remove his goods, does not apply to the action of a third person who attempts to remove from the premises goods owned by him and subject to distress.</p> <p>2. A provision in a lease giving the landlord a right to enter judgment in case of default “with costs of suit and attorney’s commission of twenty dollars for collection,” does not apply to proceedings by distress.</p>