Wolf v. Guffey

Citations

• 161 Pa. 276
• 28 A. 1117
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 685

Syllabus

<p>Oil lease — Forfeiture—Waiver—Election.</p> <p>A lessee in an oil and gas lease agreed to complete a well within six months or pay the lessor for such delay a certain sum per annum, within three months after the time for completing the well. Six days after the expiration of nine months from the date of the lease, the lessor, without demanding payment of any sum from the lessee, leased the premises to another person for a long term of years. Held, that this action of the lessor was an election by him to enforce a forfeiture, and that thenceforth the lease was a nullity.</p>