Case Name: JAMES BOWEN, APPELLANT, v. ATLAS OIL COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1943-02-25
Citations: 129 N.J.L. 558
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES BOWEN, APPELLANT, v. ATLAS OIL COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 129
Pages: 558–559

Head Matter:
JAMES BOWEN, APPELLANT, v. ATLAS OIL COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RESPONDENT.
Argued January 19, 1943
Decided February 25, 1943.
Before Justices Bodine, Heher and Perskie.
For the appellant, Melosh, Morten & Melosh (Louis G. Morten.)
For the respondent, Hyman Halpern and William Safirstein.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This suit is brought to recover the rent reserved in a written lease. The defendant was ousted by reason of the foreclosure of a taz sale certificate and sought and did recover by counterclaim the'rent it had paid in advance and before ouster. It also had judgment. The landlord appeals.
If the landlord would avoid the loss of his rents he should have protected his property from the foreclosure of tax liens. He was a party to the Chancery proceedings and so was the defendant. It is too late to urge that the Chancery proceedings did not cover the precise property. Assuming, but not deciding, that the question was one for proof by the tenant, we think that it met its burden and the evidence supports the verdict. A suit for rent, after ouster by the municipality, is a strange anomaly in the pattern of justice.
The judgment is affirmed, with costs.