Case Name: DREXLER et al. v. COHEN
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-02-07
Citations: 108 N.Y.S. 679
Docket Number: 
Parties: DREXLER et al. v. COHEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 108
Pages: 679–680

Head Matter:
DREXLER et al. v. COHEN.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
February 7, 1908.)
Landlord and Tenant—Action for Rent—Evidence—Sufficiency.
Plaintiffs may not recover from defendant as for rent, where the evidence does not show who owns the premises involved or any contractual relation respecting them other than between defendant and a third person.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 32, Landlord and Tenant, § 933.]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of the Bronx, Second District.
Action by Hudes Drexler and another against Solomon Cohen for rent. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Arsrued before GIEDERSLEEVE, P. J., -and SEABURY and GERard; jj.
Isidor Cohn, for appellant.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This action was brought to recover the sum of $315 for rent of premises from the 1st of February to the 1st of October, 1906. Plaintiffs called defendant as his witness. Defendant tes tified that he occupied the premises in question during the time claimed; that he rented the place from one J. Kamber; that he paid Kamber the rent monthly up to January, and that in that month Kamber owed him $1,500; that he asked Kamber for the money, and Kamber told him that he would repay it by permitting defendant to live in the premises until the debt was paid; that he never knew the plaintiff herein with relation to the rent of the premises; that they never demanded any. rent from him. There is no evidence whatever in the record to show who owned the premises in question, and there was no evidence whatever that the defendant had hired the premises from any person other than Kamber, or was in any contractual relation with any person other than Kamber. As the record stands, the judgment must be reversed.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.