Case Name: Mohonk Realty Corporation, Appellant, v. Wise Shoe Stores, Inc., Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1941-07-29
Citations: 286 N.Y. 476
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mohonk Realty Corporation, Appellant, v. Wise Shoe Stores, Inc., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 286
Pages: 476–477

Head Matter:
Mohonk Realty Corporation, Appellant, v. Wise Shoe Stores, Inc., Respondent.
Argued June 9, 1941;
decided July 29, 1941.
Meyer Grouf, David W. Kahn and Nathan Siegel for appellant.
Joseph M. Proskauer, I. Alfred Levy, Bernard Weiss and Eugene Eisenmann for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is an action brought to recover rent under a lease. At Special Term the plaintiff was granted summary judgment. The Appellate Division reversed, taking the view that there were " triable issues presented respecting whether the defendant should be held bound through privity of contract, as distinguished from privity of estate " (260 App. Div. 64, 66) as well as other triable issues relating to an assignment made by the defendant, its surrender of possession to its assignee, and the latter's acceptance of the assignment and entrance into possession. Two questions have been certified:
"1. Was there privity of contract as well as of estate between the parties?
" 2. On the record herein was plaintiff entitled to summary judgment? "
The decision of the Appellate Division was apparently •founded in a discretion which was exercised because the factual situation did not justify an answer to either of the questions now certified to us. The certified questions, therefore, should not be answered.
The appeal should be dismissed, without costs.
Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Finch, Rippey, Lewis, Conway and Desmond, JJ., concur.
Appeal dismissed, etc.