Case Name: Max Muskin, Respondent, v. Grand Union Stores, Inc., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1935-05
Citations: 244 A.D. 842
Docket Number: 
Parties: Max Muskin, Respondent, v. Grand Union Stores, Inc., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 244
Pages: 842–842

Head Matter:
Max Muskin, Respondent, v. Grand Union Stores, Inc., Appellant.

Opinion:
Appeal by defendant from judgment in favor of plaintiff for $542.53 damages and $68 costs, amounting to $610.53, entered in the Fulton county clerk's office- after a trial by the court without a jnry. The plaintiff landlord and defendant tenant had entered into a written lease of a store for a one-year term ending March 31, 1933, at the stipulated rental of two per Cent of the gross sales, to be paid monthly within- fifteen days after the end of each month. The lease provided for seven successive extensions of one year each. It then contained the following provisions; " It is also understood and agreed that should the gross sales at the end of the first extension, April 1st, 1934, be insufficient to pay the Lessor Fifteen hundred ($1500.00) Dollars per annum the Lessor may at his option on or before May 1st, 1934, serve written notice on the Lessee to vacate the above mentioned premises within ninety days. It is also understood and agreed that the Lessee may at its option remain by paying the Lessor the monthly-rental of One Hundred Seventy Five ($175.00) Dollars payable monthly in advance provided Lessor sérves such notice." At the end of the first extension on March 81, 1934, two per cent of the gross sales for the previous year was less than $1,500, and on April 6, 1934, the landlord served on the tehant written notice to vacate pursuant to the above-quoted provision. The tenant eontintied in possession.- Plaintiff claims $175 per month for each of the months of April, May and June and has recovered this amount. Defendant contended that the rent for these months should be two per cent of the gross sales. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Hill, P. J,, Crapser, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ., concur; Rhode's, J., votes to modify as to the rent for the month of April, 1984, as to which the rent should be at the rate existing prior to the service of notice by the landlord.