Walsh v. The Bourse

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 219
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 326

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Seasonable rules of office building.</p> <p>The rule of the owners of an office building that all furniture, bulky packages and freight must be carried on the freight elevator, is obviously reasonable, and no person, whether tenant or not, can claim successfully that any of his rights were infringed because he was prevented from removing such articles by the stairway.</p> <p>Landlord and tenant — Distress—Surreptitious removal of tenant's furniture.</p> <p>It would seem that the owner and custodian of a building may interfere for the protection of a tenant to prevent the surreptitious removal of their goods by strangers; and if the defendant had not incurred liability prior to the return of the goods to the tenant’s office, no liability was incurred by the subsequent seizure of the goods for rent, they being upon the demised premises, for which an action of assumpsit to recover their value would lie.</p>