Case Name: William E. Dolan, Appellant, v. Margaret A. Dolan, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1925-01-22
Citations: 125 Misc. 849
Docket Number: 
Parties: William E. Dolan, Appellant, v. Margaret A. Dolan, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 849–849

Head Matter:
William E. Dolan, Appellant, v. Margaret A. Dolan, Respondent.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
January 22, 1925.
William J. McDermott, for the appellant.
Joseph Katz, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
Judgment unanimously reversed upon the law and new trial granted, with fifteen dollars costs to appellant to abide the event.
Under section 532 of the Real Property Law (as added by Laws of 1920, chap. 930), an action at law may be maintained by one joint tenant or one tenant in common against another to recover his just proportion of the rent where the tenant sued has received more than his just proportion. While a court of equity also has jurisdiction in such a case, its jurisdiction is concurrent and not exclusive. (Joslyn v. Joslyn, 9 Hun, 388-390; Wright v. Wright, 59 How. Pr. 176, 184; Coakley v. Mahar, 36 Hun, 157; Maekotter v. Maekotter, 74 Misc. 214, 216; Minion v. Warner, 185 App. Div. 246, 247; 238 N. Y. 413, 417, 418.)
Tenants by the entirety come within the foregoing rule. (Matter of Goodrich v. Village of Otego, 216 N. Y. 112, 117.)
Present: Cropsey, Lazansky and MacCrate, JJ.