Snyder v. Henry

Citations

• 32 Pa. Super. 167
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Lease—Notice—Evidence—Bent.</p> <p>Where a tenant from year to year holds over at the end of the year, he becomes a tenant for an additional year, and will be liable as such, notwithstanding he wrote to the lessor more than thirty days before the termination of the year that he did not wish to renew the lease, but would rent from month to month, if satisfactory. To relieve himself from liability-he must go further and actually show that a new agreement had been made which superseded the terms of the lease.</p> <p>A tenant for years cannot relieve himself from his liability under the lease to pay rent, by vacating the demised premises during the term, and sending the key to his landlord.</p> <p>The fact that the landlord when a tenant.has abandoned the property and left it vacant, takes possession and repairs the house, does not discharge the tenant from his covenant to pay rent.</p>