Case Name: ERNEST TRIBELHORN, Inc., v. HANAVAN
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1909-05-07
Citations: 116 N.Y.S. 632
Docket Number: 
Parties: ERNEST TRIBELHORN, Inc., v. HANAVAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 116
Pages: 632–634

Head Matter:
ERNEST TRIBELHORN, Inc., v. HANAVAN.
(Supreme. Court, Appellate Term.
May 7, 1909.)
Evidence (§ 442 )—Pabol Evidence—Leases.
An oral agreement by a landlord to make repairs, made as an inducement to the execution of a lease silent on the subject, at or before the signing of the lease, together with proof that the repairs were not com- - pleted and that the. tenant did not occupy the premises, may be shown in an action for rent due under the written lease.
[Ed. Note.—For. other cases, see Evidence, Cent. Dig. §§ 1874^-1899 • Dec. Dig. § 442.*]
Goff, J., dissenting.
■ Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Ninth District.
Action by Ernest Tribelhorn,. Incorporated, against George B. Hanayan., From ,a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before GILDERSLEEVE, P. J., and DAYTON and GOFF, JJ.
Royal H. Weller, for appellant.
Norwood & Marden, for respondent.
For other eases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
DAYTON, J.
As an inducement, plaintiff promised to make cer-
tain repairs at or before the signing of the lease, as is fully shown by the testimony admitted. Some pertinent questions on this head were excluded. The court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The case of Clenighan v. McFarland (Com. Pl.) 11 N. Y. Supp. 719, seems to be "on all fours" with that at bar, as to the right to the defense here interposed. The jury should have been allowed to pass upon any disputed questions of fact.
The judgment should be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
GIRDERSLEEVE, P. J., concurs.