Case ID: ny_238/html/0603-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Samuel Baker et al., Respondents, v. John Carlson, Appellant.
    
      Contract — lease — specific performance — action to compel specific performance of alleged contract to lease real property.
    
    
      Baker v. Carlson, 207 App. Div. 868, affirmed.
    (Argued May 21, 1924;
    decided June 6, 1924.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 28, 1923, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term directing that the defendant specifically perform an alleged agreement for a lease upon a motion picture theatre, and that the defendant deliver to the plaintiffs possession of the premises, and that the premises be impressed with a hen of a lease for a period of five years with an option of renewal for a further period of five years, and directing that a money judgment be entered against the defendant for damages and costs and that the counterclaim of defendant for alleged breach of contract be dismissed.
    
      Julius S. Belfer and Charles J. Belfer for appellant.
    
      Jacob M. Friedman and Herman Strizver for respondents.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.