Case Name: NEWCOMBE v. EAGLETON
Court: New York City Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1896-03-16
Citations: 38 N.Y.S. 424
Docket Number: 
Parties: NEWCOMBE v. EAGLETON.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 38
Pages: 424–424

Head Matter:
(16 Misc. Rep. 285.)
NEWCOMBE v. EAGLETON.
(City Court of New York, General Term.
March 16, 1896.)
Lease—Termination op Surety’s Obligation.
Liability of a surety on a lease terminates with issuance by a justice, in summary proceedings, of a warrant for the removal of the tenant from the premises, as to rent thereafter accruing.
Appeal from trial term.
Action by Ida M. Aewcombe against. Thomas Eagleton, surety on a bond conditioned for performance of the conditions of lease from plaintiff to Thomas E. Flannery. The rent for which it was sought to hold defendant accrued after the issuance by a justice, in a summary proceeding by the landlord, of a warrant for the removal of the tenant. From a judgment on a verdict directed for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Beversed.
Argued before FITZSIMOAS, CONLAN, and O’DWYER, JJ.
Foley & Early, for appellant.
George Lithauer, for respondent.

Opinion:
COALAA, J.
Appeal from a judgment entered by direction of the court, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.' The legal obligation of the defendant as surety on the lease terminated with the issuance of the warrant by the justice.
The judgment should be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. All concur.