MID-ISLAND PROPERTIES, INC. v. MANIS


391 Pa.Super. 236 (1990)

570 A.2d 1070

MID-ISLAND PROPERTIES, INC. and Sylvan M. Cohen, a Partnership t/a Wyncote House, Appellees, v. Robert MANIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed February 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Garner, Philadelphia, for appellant.

David Gutin, Philadelphia, for appellees.

Before BROSKY, WIEAND and JOHNSON, JJ.


WIEAND, Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether a tenant who, on his own initiative, circulates among other tenants a petition intended to induce action or forbearance by the landlord is acting as part of a "tenants' organization or association" within section 205 of the Landlord and Tenant Act of April 6, 1951, P.L. 69, as amended, 68 P.S. § 250.205, which prohibits a landlord from terminating a lease because of the tenant's participation in a "tenants' organization...

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