Pollack v. Jackson

Shientag, J.:

The plaintiff brings this action to recover the sum of $1,225, representing the amount of eleven Liberty bonds of the face value of $1,000 with coupons, deposited by the plaintiff with the defendant as security under a lease dated September 19, 1919, between the plaintiff as tenant and the defendant as landlord for a term expiring October 1, 1924. The lease provided that the security was to be retained by the landlord until the expiration of the term. In May, 1924, before the lease expired, the property was sold subject to the lease to one Max Gottnick, who in the same month sold…