Case Name: Rose Greenspan, Doing Business as Rose Furniture Shop, Appellant, v. East 33rd Street Realty Corporation, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-10-18
Citations: 169 Misc. 353
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rose Greenspan, Doing Business as Rose Furniture Shop, Appellant, v. East 33rd Street Realty Corporation, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 169
Pages: 353–354

Head Matter:
Rose Greenspan, Doing Business as Rose Furniture Shop, Appellant, v. East 33rd Street Realty Corporation, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
October 18, 1938.
Herman S. Fried, for the appellant.
Robert J. Farrington, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The language of section 234 of the Peal Property-Law, providing that agreements exempting lessors of real property from liability for negligence " shall be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable," embraces prior as well as future agreements and we have no right to engraft an exception not made by the Legislature. (Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Mottley, 219 U. S. 467.) The application of the section to prior leases is not precluded by constitutional prohibitions. (People ex rel. Durham Realty Co. v. LaFetra, 230 N. Y. 429.)
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs. y
All concur. Present — Lydon, Frankenthaler and Shientag, JJ.