Case Name: RANALLI v. ZEPPETELLI
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1905-06-22
Citations: 94 N.Y.S. 561
Docket Number: 
Parties: RANALLI v. ZEPPETELLI.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 94
Pages: 561–562

Head Matter:
RANALLI v. ZEPPETELLI.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
June 22, 1905.)
1. Contracts—Lease—Merger.
The arrangements for a leasing are merged in the lease executed.
[Ed. Note.—For cases In point", see vol. 11, Cent. Dig. Contracts, $| 1129, 1130.]
2. Lease—Reformation.
A lease executed under a mutual mistake may be reformed.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see vol. 42, Cent Dig. Reformation of • Instruments, §§ 74r-76.]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District.
Action by Cosimo Ranalli against Pietro Zeppetelli. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before SCOTT, P. J., and DUGRO and MacLEAN, JJ.
Joseph Gifuni, for appellant.
Frank A. Acer, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The action was upon a contract, and no contract that would warrant a recovery by the plaintiff was shown. The arrangement that preceded the lease was merged in the lease. If the lease was executed under, a mutual mistake of, fact, it may be reformed, and appropriate relief thereupon had.
The judgment will be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.