Wetherill v. Gallagher

Citations

• 217 Pa. 635
• 66 A. 849
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 771

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Bailment—Trade fixtures — Boilers.</p> <p>Where a tenant of premises in which are boilers owned by the landlord, takes out the boilers himself and places them on a neighboring lot, and for the purposes of his business installs other boilers which he has acquired on a bailment lease, and subsequently upon default in the stipulated rent for the boilers, the lessors in the bailment lease declare the lease terminated, and assert their right to the possession of the boilers, and thereafter the lessee is declared a bankrupt before the landlord of the premises had distrained for rent, the owners of the boilers have a right to resume possession of their property without being required to restore the old boilers to their former place; nor are they required to pay the landlord the arrears of rent due him by the tenant.</p>