Case Name: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Landlord, Appellant, v. Butler & Currie, Inc., Tenant, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1934-04-12
Citations: 151 Misc. 230
Docket Number: 
Parties: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Landlord, Appellant, v. Butler & Currie, Inc., Tenant, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 230–231

Head Matter:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Landlord, Appellant, v. Butler & Currie, Inc., Tenant, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
April 12, 1934.
' Tanner, Sillcocks & Friend [Julius C. Krause of counsel], for the appellant.
George Dyson Friou, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Under the controlling decisions which have overruled the doctrine that moneys deposited with a lessor as security for performance of the covenants of a lease of real property are held in a fiduciary capacity, and which adjudicate that the relation arising upon such a deposit is merely that of debtor and creditor (Rambach v. Heights Theatres, Inc., 239 App. Div. 203; Levinson v. Shapiro, 238 App. Div. 158; affd., 263 N. Y. 591), the answer is insufficient on its face. By statute, the rule is different with respect to the deposit of security under a rental of personal property. (Gen. Business Law, § 382-a, 382-b.) No objection is made to the form of the landlord's application.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs, and final order and judgment directed for the landlord.
All concur; present, Lydon, Frankenthaler and Shientag, JJ.