Case ID: misc_203/html/0304-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Irv-Man Realty Co., Inc., Appellant, v. Lawrence O’Connor, Respondent.
    Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
    November 6, 1952.
    
      Julius Siegel for appellant.
    
      Samuel Davis for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

As the tenancy was statutory in character, each month’s occupation of the demised premises gave rise to a separate and distinct cause of action for rent. The doctrine invoked by defendant applies only where there is a splitting of a single indivisible cause of action (Gedney v. Gedney, 19 App. Div. 407, affd. 160 N. Y. 471). Cases dealing with installments of rent or otherwise due under leases or other contracts are clearly distinguishable since they involve splitting of single causes of action under the leases or contracts in question. In the instant case, no splitting of a single cause of action is involved.

The judgment should be reversed, with $30 costs, and judgment directed in favor of plaintiff, with costs.

Schreiber and Hecht, JJ., concur in Per Curiam memorandum; Hofstadter, J., concurs in result.

Judgment reversed, etc.