Court Opinion

ID: 5500273
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 02:58:25.262067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:54.785903
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Pratt, J.
There is no merit in this appeal. The defendant Schmitz was an under-tenant of one Hugh Lunny, who held a written lease of certain premises in Westchester county. The lease had expired, and the plaintiff commenced these proceedings to eject the tenant, who was holding over. A trial was had on the 16th of May, 1890, and a verdict rendered for the defendant. J udgment and verdict entered in the justice’s docket on the 5th of July, 1890, and defendant appealed, and judgment reversed in county court. The fact that plaintiff paid the costs, and served a notice of appeal before the entry of judgment, had no legal effect, and the judgment in the county court was right. The defendant was the tenant of Lunny, and not the tenant of the plaintiff, and Lunny’s lease had expired. These facts appeared before the jury in the justice’s court, and the verdict was against the evidence.
J udgment affirmed, with costs.