Court Opinion

ID: 5501223
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 02:59:48.311039+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:56.216270
License: Public Domain

Barnard, P. J.
The let to the defendant in New York for three years and seven months, at the monthly rent of $75, payable in advance until May, 1887, and after that time at $100 per mouth. The lease was given the 30tli of September, 1886. Defendant took possession of the premises, and occupied them until May, 1888. The rent was paid up when the tenant left the premises. 'In January, 1889, the plaintiff brought an action to recover the installments due under the lease. The answer averred that defendant did not have quiet and peaceable possession and surrender of the premises. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the action. This action is brought for the subsequent installments, and the same defenses are pleaded, with tile additional one of a former suit in bar. The court ordered a verdict for the plaintiff. The former suit was not a bar. An action upon an instrument payable by installments may be brought for each installment as it became due, but the action must embrace all which are due when the action is commenced. Lorillard v. Clyde, 122 N. Y. 41, 25 N. E. Rep. 292. The former suit did establish that there had been no surrender and no eviction, and that the defendant was not justified in leaving the premises. No new surrender after the former action was proven, and none which was not within the evidence given in this action. Of course, there was no new eviction, for the defendant had left the premises before the first action was commenced, and no new possession had been taken by defendant. There was no question as to the amount of the rent. The defendant asked a reduction from the amount as called for by the lease, and it was allowed. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs. All concur.