Zeigler v. Lichten

Citations

• 205 Pa. 104
• 54 A. 489
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 523

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Covenant against subletting — Parol agreement— Evidence — Opening judgment— Question of fact.</p> <p>On a rule to open a judgment entered by warrant, of attorney in a lease for breach of a covenant not to sublet, where the lessee sets up an alleged contemporaneous parol agreement that he might sublet, the burden of proof is on the lessee, and a finding of the court below that' there was no sufficient evidence of such alleged agreement will not be reversed by the appellate court, there being nothinginthe case but a question of the sufficiency of evidence.</p>