LANCELLOTTI v. THOMAS


341 Pa.Super. 1 (1985)

491 A.2d 117

John LANCELLOTTI, Appellant, v. Albert THOMAS and Lillian Thomas.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed March 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin Paul, Philadelphia, for appellant.

James G. Buckler, Upper Darby, for appellees.

Before SPAETH, President Judge, and BECK and TAMILIA, JJ.


SPAETH, President Judge:

This appeal raises the question of whether a defaulting purchaser of a business who has also entered into a related lease for the property can recover any part of his payments made prior to default. The common law rule precluded a breaching buyer from recovering these payments. Today, we reject this rule, which created a forfeiture of the breaching buyer's payments and unjustly enriched the nonbreaching seller, and adopt § 374 of the...

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