Case Name: Dora Stakser, Appellant, v. George Rodriquez et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1960-02-10
Citations: 23 Misc. 2d 954
Docket Number: 
Parties: Dora Stakser, Appellant, v. George Rodriquez et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 954–955

Head Matter:
Dora Stakser, Appellant, v. George Rodriquez et al., Respondents.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
February 10, 1960.
Arnstein é Schwarts (Louis L. Schwarts of counsel), for appellant. No one appearing for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The obligation of the tenants under the lease to reimburse the landlord for expenses incurred in remedying the tenants' default is a substantial obligation of the lease under section 8 of the Business Bent Law (L. 1945, ch. 314, as amd.). It properly applies to a proceeding which the landlord is compelled to institute to collect the emergency rent. As the tenants' failure to pay the counsel fee incurred in collecting the emergency rent is a violation by the tenants of a substantial obligation of the lease, entitling the landlord to dispossess the tenants, the landlord may collect the counsel fee in a summary proceeding.
The. final order should be modified by increasing the amount of the rent found to be due to the sum of $77.64, without costs and as modified affirmed, with $25 costs to appellant.
Concur — Hecht, J. P., Aurelio and Tilzer, JJ.
Final order modified, etc.