Case Name: Bernard F. Golden, Respondent, v. Patrick H. Sullivan et al., Defendants, and Hannah Sullivan, as Receiver of the Estate of Timothy D. Sullivan, Deceased, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-07-05
Citations: 238 N.Y. 633
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bernard F. Golden, Respondent, v. Patrick H. Sullivan et al., Defendants, and Hannah Sullivan, as Receiver of the Estate of Timothy D. Sullivan, Deceased, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 633–634

Head Matter:
Bernard F. Golden, Respondent, v. Patrick H. Sullivan et al., Defendants, and Hannah Sullivan, as Receiver of the Estate of Timothy D. Sullivan, Deceased, Appellant.
Lease — rescission —■ action to rescind leases and to recover moneys deposited as security, paid as rent, and expended on the leased property.
Golden v. Sullivan, 208 App. Div. 774, affirmed.
(Argued June 6, 1924;
decided July 5, 1924.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 14, 1924, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at an Equity Term. The action was brought for a rescission of leases to the plaintiff of certain real property in New York city; to recover money deposited as security under the leases; to recover rent paid by the plaintiff for the demised premises and money expended by him thereon in an effort to remove certain violations, and for subrogation. The gravamen of the complaint was that the plaintiff had been induced by fraudulent misrepresentations, by innocent misrepresentations, and by mutual mistake to enter as lessee into five leases of that part of the premises 126 East Fourteenth street and 127 East Thirteenth street, Manhattan, known as the Dewey Theatre. The court decreed cancellation of the leases, a return of the security deposited, with interest, subrogation and other incidental equitable relief, but denied a reimbursement for rent paid and moneys expended.
Abraham Benedict and Gustavus A. Rogers for appellant.
Joseph Rosenzweig for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Not voting: Hiscock, Ch. J. Not sitting: Lehman, J.