Case ID: ad_134/html/0975-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jenks, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward S. Siegel, Appellant, v. Benjamin B. Greenberg, Respondent.
    
      Landlord and tenant—holding over— liability for damages to premises.
    
    Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, rendered on the 21st day of April, 1909, dismissing the complaint.
   Jenks, J.:

We think that the Municipal Court erred in dismissing the complaint, for the reason that the evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant held over as a tenant, and'was sufficiently strong to require the court to pass upon the question whether the defendant was not liable for the condition of the premises beyond the ordinary wear and" tear incident to a proper occupation thereof by the tenant under the rule recognized in Baker v. Bart (123 N. Y. 473) and Regan v. Luthy (16 Daly, 413). The judgment should be reversed and a new trial ordered, costs to abide the event. Hirschberg, P. J., Woodward, Rich and Miller, JJ., concurred. Judgment of the Municipal Court reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.