The evening world., 1920-04-08
BRONX Rents FIXED
ON LAST APRIL RATE
PLUS Is PER CENT
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living In the same house with him.
Delevanty's lawyer argued that this
did not give the landlord any addi-
tioRai rights as negroes were citiz,us
and entitled to equal atanding before
the law. Cohen offered TO swap
apartments. Delevanty refused. The
case was adjourned until April ~ for
further investigation.
Sam PanRelo livos In a house owned
by Patrick Daily at No. 2A09 Cemhrell-
Ing Avenue, DAILY has been ordered to
get out Of tho house in which he Is
now living by the end Of the month,
Pangelo Aaid that he had been trying
to find another place since last No
vember. The Court adjourned the
case and told both To keep hunting.
Tenant and landlord went out arm in
arm TO Interview other landlords.
LANDLORDS LoSE IN CASES oE.
CiDED IN HARLEM.
There wero 80 lSpdlord ard tenant
cases before Municipal Justice Davies
in the Seventh District Court, lc5th
Street and 81. Nicholas Avenue this
morninS. and not a landlord won i
case,
About one third OF the landlords
complaints were dismissed because
| tho papers were not properly drawn
undor the new law, As many more
were settled by hurried COMPROMISED
between tenants and landlOrds-the
| 10 NIL Va ha tall To-.
! toward conclliation. In the rest OF the
cases the tenants asked for more time
In which To move. and they we're
! granted from sixty to ninety days,
and advised 20 come back and ask for
further extensions u they could not
md new homea,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
O'Sullivan. representing the Mayors
Committee. assisted the court, with
the result that all the cases were dis
posed Of in two hours.
One case provoked a little speech
from the bench, II was that Of the
Sara Realty Company against John
Raphael. tenant OF an apartment at
No. $40 West lA4th Street. The rent
has been $50 ana tho landlord wanted
$50. Mr.. O'Sullivan asked that the
case be adjourned for trial on the
ground that the increase was appar-
I emily excessive.
IT'S only $40 a room" protested
4 the landlords agent That's not
, too much for a fine neighborhood
like that"
Il know tho neighborhood," sale
D Justice Davies, And you landlords
= may as well understand that II is no
n a question OF what you can get, bu
n of what is fair. This protteerinl
4 has sot to be stopped" The cas-,
was adjourned.
A soore Of landlord and tenan
cases we're on the calendar bc6or
d Justice FTdedlander In the Third Dis
h trict Municipal Court. Most VI then
y were settled by agreement. In tn
10 others the tenants were given exten
;. sions OF thirty 10 ninety days and in
structed TO pay tho old rent, no In
creases, during these periOda. The
y were also advised to come back late
n II they fail 10 find new homes,
u Permission to remain another yea
y in their apartments at the plrsen
:. rental was granted TO forty-thre
tenants who appeared before JustiC
r Stwhl In the East New York MuniC
y ipal Court, Sixteen tenants OF Mar
x ME SidmSn IN No, $50 blake Avenu
~ Brooklyn, told the Justice that Sic
man wanted Increases OF S5 and o.
month. The present rental varl,
, between SlS and S25 a month. Jui
tice Trahl suggested a flat increai
OF 81 omnth, but Sidman decline
, and wiAhed TO withdraw the case
Justice Strahl announced that, IL Il
cases were Withdrawn, he wou
or award each tenant $40 court cost
s- SidmAn then declared he was wiIhI
,y To lei them remain one year at Il
a., present rate. Morris Isdoa agreed
of n similar plan in regard 10 Sevente,
er tenants Of No, SO2 Glenmoro AVenl
ts and Max Kusisnoff took the sau
IL, position IN the cases OF ten tenan
OF Nos. $50 9S7 Alabama Avenue.
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