Case ID: nys_26/html/0150-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRATT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WOODHAVEN JUNCTION LAND CO. v. SOLLY et al.
    (Supreme Court, General Term, Second Department.
    December 1, 1893.)
    Vendor and Purchaser—Sale for Business Purposes.
    Where real estate is sold with the understanding that it could be used for business purposes, the vendee cannot be restricted from selling liquors thereon.
    Appeal from special term, Queens county.
    Action by the Woodhaven Junction Land Company against John Solly and Charles Lange to restrain defendant Solly, as landlord, and defendant Lange, as his tenant, from further letting or using certain premises for the business of a saloon,, and for damages. The premises were purchased by defendant Solly from plaintiff in June, 1891, but the deeds were not delivered until three months after the purchase money had been paid, and the building already erected thereon and rented. The sale was made with the understanding that the vendee was to use the premises for business purposes. The deeds were delivered, containing clauses prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on the premises conveyed. '
    Argued before BARNARD, P. J., and DYKMAN and PRATT, JJ.
    L. C. Whiton, for appellant.
    Read, Hatting & Wintner, for respondent Solly.
    M. L. Towns, for respondent Lange.
   PRATT, J.

The proof shows that Solly bought the land with the understanding that it could be used for business purposes. We think the court below correctly held that under that description a liquor business should be permitted. It follows that Solly could not be required to accept a deed restricting him from selling liquors. His failure to object at once was sufficiently explained. Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concur.