Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1956

Montague Henry Corp. v. Burnstein

Montague Henry Corp. v. Burnstein
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 13, 1956
4 Misc. 2d 792; 162 N.Y.S.2d 424; 1956 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1280

Counsel

William Snair for appellant., Ira H. Newman for respondent.

Montague Henry Corp. v. Burnstein

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The reasonable rent fixed by agreement pursuant to the provisions of the Commercial Rent Law (L. 1945, ch. 3, § 4, as amd.) became the emergency rent and measured the liability of the tenant upon the expiration of the lease.

The final order should be unanimously modified on the law by increasing the amount awarded to the landlord to $1,166.66, with appropriate costs in the court below, and as so modified, affirmed, with $25 costs to the landlord.

Pette, Hart and Di Gtovanna, JJ., concur.

Order modified, etc.

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