Case ID: nys_28/html/0733-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BOOKSTAVER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(8 Misc. Rep. 306.)
    CRAWFORD v. REDDING.
    (Common Pleas of New York City and County, General Term.
    May 17, 1894.)
    Landlord and Tenant—Liability for Rent—Dilapidation of Premises.
    Where premises, held under a lease which covenants that the lessee will keep them in repair, become dilapidated by gradual decay, and not by any sudden disaster, the lessee is not relieved from paying rent.
    
      Appeal from first district court.'
    Action by Andrew Crawford against Henry Redding to recover rent. There was a judgment in favor of defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
    Argued before BOOKSTAVER, BISCHOFF, and PRYOR, JJ.
    Howe & Hummel, for appellant.
    B. W. Traitel, for respondent.
   BOOKSTAVER, J.

There is no implied warranty in the lease-under consideration that the premises were fit for the purposes for which they were rented, while there is an express covenant on the part of the tenant that he will keep the premises in repair. The case is barren of any proof that the premises became untenantable by reason of any sudden disaster of any kind, but the testimony rather tends to show that they became dilapidated by gradual decay, which was one of the things the tenant undertook to guard against by his covenant in the lease. The judgment is therefore clearly erroneous, and it must be reversed, with costs to the appellant.