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The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Bessie Steinhardt, Appellant.
    (Submitted April 4, 1927;
    decided May 3, 1927.)
    
      Crimes — landlord and tenant — New York city — violation of provision of Sanitary Code requiring landlords to furnish heat.
    
    
      People v. Steinhardt, 215 App. Div. 724, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 20, 1925, which affirmed a judgment of the Court of Special' Sessions of the city of New York convicting the defendant of violating section 225 of the Sanitary Code of the city of New York, in that being the owner of a building rented to and occupied by tenants as their homes, heated by a single.steam heating apparatus under control of defendant, who had contracted to furnish heat, the defendant failed to maintain a minimum temperature of sixty-eight degrees between the hours of six a. m. and ten p. m. on days when the outside temperature fell below fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
    
      Sidney Szerlip for appellant.
    
      George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (Elliot S. Benedict, Joseph M. Lonergan and J. Joseph Lilly of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman and Kellogg, JJ. Not sitting: O’Brien, J.