Case Name: Empire Plexiglass Corp., Landlord, Respondent, v. Enterprise Industries, Inc., Tenant, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1949-07-14
Citations: 195 Misc. 506
Docket Number: 
Parties: Empire Plexiglass Corp., Landlord, Respondent, v. Enterprise Industries, Inc., Tenant, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 195
Pages: 506–507

Head Matter:
Empire Plexiglass Corp., Landlord, Respondent, v. Enterprise Industries, Inc., Tenant, Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
July 14, 1949.
Nathan Greenberg, Donald M. Newman and Louis Timberg for appellant.
Joseph L. Forscher for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
It was error to exclude proof by the tenant that the execution of the lease was not preceded by any bona fide inquiry into the rents charged on the determinative date for the most nearly comparable commercial space in the same building or in the rental area and that the inclusion of clause 29 in the lease was a subterfuge and pretended compliance with subdivision (e) of section 2 of the Commercial Bent Law (L. 1945, ch. 3, as amd.).
The final order should be reversed and new trial ordered, with $30 costs to appellant to abide the event.
Hobstadtek and Edeb, JJ., concur. Hammer, J. I dissent and vote for affirmance. (See L. 1945, ch. 3, § 4, unnumbered par. 6 (üi), as amd. by L. 1949, ch. 534; Matter of Banner Mfg. Co. [Roadlin Realties], 273 App. Div. 975; Roof Health Club v. Jamlee Hotel Corp., 271 App. Div. 481, affd. 296 N. Y. 883.)
Final order reversed, etc.