Court Opinion

ID: 8273080
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 19:38:39.883316+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:35.266750
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White, J.
(dissenting). I am unable to agree that there was a “surrender” of the tenancy in this case. In January, 1915, the landlord received and receipted for the rent for the current year ending in March, 1915, and agreed-with the tenant that the portion of the lease for the balance of the term after that year should be canceled. It is said that this was a “surrender.” I think not. I think it was a contract changing the lease from, one for three years to one for one year. The tenant did not give up possession to the landlord in January when the agreement was executed, but in March at the end of the term of the lease as thus changed. Can it be doubted that she held possession during this time from January to March as a tenant under that lease, or that if in March she had refused to give up possession to the landlord she could have been summarily dispossessed under the Landlord and Tenant law as upon the termination of her term at that time ? I think not. This leads me to the view that at the end of the one-year term under the modified lease she was entitled to emblements just the same as she would have been at the end of the three-year term if the lease had not been changed.
For affirmance—The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Garrison, Swayze, Trenci-iard, Parker, Bergen, Minturn, Kalisci-i, Black, Heppenheimer, Williams, Gardner, JJ. 13.
For reversal—White, J. 1.