Stull v. Thompson

Citations

• 154 Pa. 43
• 25 A. 890
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 837

Syllabus

<p>Parol evidence to vary written instrument — Lease.</p> <p>Where rent is reserved in money in a lease, parol evidence will not be admitted to show that, immediately prior to the execution of the lease, the lessee was induced to sign the lease by a statement that part of the rent was to be taken out in boarding.</p> <p>Landlord and tenant — Untenantable premises — Covenantn-Hvidence.</p> <p>A lease provided that the tenant should surrender the premises in as good state and condition “as the same are now or may be put into” by the landlord. In an action for rent the tenant offered to prove that at the time the lease began and during the period of his occupation the roof was leaky, and that the house could not be used as a boarding house in consequence. Held, that the evidence was properly excluded.</p>