Wilson v. Goldstein

Citations

• 152 Pa. 524
• 25 A. 493
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1012

Syllabus

<p>Oil lease — Forfeiture—Next friend — Minors.</p> <p>Where a brother of full age acting for himself and as next friend of his minor sisters asserts a forfeiture of an oil lease covering land which he and his sisters have inherited as tenants in common, he cannot afterwards recover for himself his share of the monthly damages stipulated in the lease and accruing between the date of the assertion of forfeiture and the institution of the suit.</p> <p>It seems that in such a ease if the action of the brother as next friend of his minor sisters was judicious and for the best interest of the minors, the forfeiture asserted by him should be sustained against them.</p>