Case Name: PHILLIP LYNN, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. BENJAMIN JACOBS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1925-10-06
Citations: 3 N.J. Misc. 966
Docket Number: 
Parties: PHILLIP LYNN, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. BENJAMIN JACOBS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 966–966

Head Matter:
PHILLIP LYNN, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. BENJAMIN JACOBS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
Submitted May term, 1925
Decided October 6, 1925.
.Before Justices Parker, Minturn and Black.
Por the appellant, Carr & Carroll.
Por the respondent, Carl Kisselman.

Opinion:
Per Ctjriam.
The suit in this case was brought to recover three months' rent, due under a written lease 'dated September 1st, 1921, at $80 per month. The trial resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff for $240. The defendant filed the following1 specification of the determination with which he is dissatisfied in point of law, 'viz.: Upon the facts presented, the court should have found, as a matter of law, that there was either (a) an eviction of the defendant by the plaintiff; or (b) a surrender of the lease, and should have found in favor of .the defendant, and given judgment accordingly. We think the trial judge found according to the evidence, and the judgment should be affirmed, with costs.