Winkle v. Meany

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 339
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Beal estate — Bents—Belease—Executors and administrators.</p> <p>Rents of real estate accruing after a decedent’s death, are not assets for the payment of his debts.</p> <p>An administrator has no power to release a tenant, who holds under a lease from the heirs of the intestate, from his contract to pay rent.</p> <p>The heirs of a decedent leased land to a tenant for one year with privilege reserved to the lessors of removal of lessee at any time, on ninety days’ notice. The administrator obtained an order of sale, and in order to get a better price for the property by offering immediate possession agreed to release the tenant from rent if he would give up possession. The heirs assigned the rent to the purchaser at the sale. Held, that the administrator had no power to release the tenant, and that the purchaser could recover the rent from the tenant.</p>