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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Abraham Kornbluth, Respondent, v. Edward A. Isaacs et al., Appellants.
    
      Kornbluth v. Isaacs, 160 App. Div. 885, affirmed.
    (Argued December 17, 1915;
    decided January 11, 1916.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 5, 1914, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The complaint alleged that the defendants and one John C. Johnson entered into a conspiracy to cheat and defraud the plaintiff, and to place upon the property of the defendant Isaacs a fictitious lease from Isaacs, as owner, to Johnson, who agreed to act as dummy lessee of the premises; that Johnson, pursuant to such understanding, entered into said lease with the defendant Isaacs for a period of twenty-one years; that the defendants represented Johnson to the plaintiff as being a responsible person, fully able to comply with the terms of the lease; that he had regularly paid his rent; that he had paid and deposited security of $1,000 called for by the lease and that he, Johnson, had personally expended from $16,000 to $18,000 in making repairs and alterations to the premises, which had been pledged by him as a guaranty of the performance of the lease by him; that the plaintiff relying upon said representations purchased the premises and paid therefor a sum far in excess of its value.
    
      Walter H. Pollak and Henry L. Scheuerman for appellants.
    
      Nathan D. Stern, Julius J. Michael and I. B. Ripin for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Hogan and Pound; JJ. Not sitting: Cardozo, J.