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KLEIN v. ALLEGHENY CO. HEALTH DEPT. et al.

441 Pa. 1 (1970)

Klein v. Allegheny County Health Department et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

October 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Victor Voss, Assistant County Solicitor, with him Francis A. Barry, First Assistant County Solicitor, and Maurice Louik, County Solicitor, for appellants.

Eugene B. Strassburger, III, Assistant City Solicitor, and Ralph Lynch, Jr., City Solicitor, for City of Pittsburgh, amicus curiae.

Alan Berman, T.A. Matthews and C.H. Baron, with them Stanley J. Shapiro and Harold I. Goodman, for amicus curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, October 9, 1970:

In this appeal we are called upon to construe Pennsylvania's Rent Withholding Act, Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. (1965) 1534, § 1, as amended, 35 P.S. § 1700-1 (Supp. 1970).

Since September, 1966, Louise Brunson (tenant) has occupied one of six apartments in a building at 2505 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, owned by appellee, Stanley Klein t/a/d/b/a Mutual Real Estate Company (landlord). On June 20, 1968...

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