Case Name: Ignatz Schmitt, Respondent, v. Kathinka Stoss, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1913-02-14
Citations: 207 N.Y. 731
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ignatz Schmitt, Respondent, v. Kathinka Stoss, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 207
Pages: 731–731

Head Matter:
Ignatz Schmitt, Respondent, v. Kathinka Stoss, Appellant.
(Submitted February 10, 1913;
decided February 14, 1913.)
Motion to substitute Wilhelmina Sarbin and Albert H. Schmitt, heirs at law of Ignatz Schmitt, deceased, as parties respondent in his place and stead, in an action to compel specific performance of an alleged covenant to renew a lease.
Uriah W. Tompkins for motion.
Alexander Thain opposed.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The personal representatives of the deceased plaintiff and not his heirs at law should be substituted. Leases for years are deemed assets and go to the personal representatives for distribution as a part of the personal estate of the deceased. (Code Civ. Pro. § 2712.) They are expressly excepted from the term "real property " as defined by section 80 of the Decedent Estate Law. The context and reference to section 27, 1 R. S. 754, pt. 2, ch. 2, from which the section was derived, removes whatever doubt the punctuation might create on that point.
The motion is denied, with ten dollars costs.
Cullen, Ch. J., Gray, Willard Bartlett, Chase, Cuddebaok, Hogan and Miller, JJ., concur.
Motion denied.