Case Name: FRIEDMAN v. YAMNER
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1906-01-17
Citations: 97 N.Y.S. 357
Docket Number: 
Parties: FRIEDMAN v. YAMNER.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 97
Pages: 357–358

Head Matter:
FRIEDMAN v. YAMNER.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
January 17, 1906.)
Evidence—Conclusions.
The testimony of witness giving in detail a conversation showing a monthly letting cannot be overcome by his conclusion, in another part of his testimony, which is merely the construction he put on the conversation, that there was a verbal lease for a year.
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Fifth District.
Action by Cilly Friedman against Sussman Yamner. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed.
Argued before SCOTT, P. J., and BLANCHARD and DOW-LING, JJ.
Max Brown, for appellant.
Emanuel I. Silberstein, for respondent.

Opinion:
SCOTT, P. J.
I can find no evidence that a lease was made for a year. - The evidence of the witness Harry Friedman, where he gives in detail the conversation with defendant, shows a monthly letting. This cannot be changed to a lease for a year by the witness' conclusion in another part of his testimony that the defendant took a verbal lease for a year. This is merely the construction he puts on the conversation, which he detailed previously, and which shows a monthly letting.
The complaint should have been dismissed, and the judgment should be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event. All concur.