Levin v. Improved Property Holding Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Samuel Levin and another, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of . New York, borough of Brooklyn, in favor of .the defendant, rendered on the.26fch day of May, 1910, dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The Brunswick Site Company leased a. room in a large building to one Sweet, who later sublet the same, subdivided by partitions,to various parties.' Before the expiration of the term Sweet sold the partitions to the plaintiffs, who bring this action in conversion against the landlord of the building. Sweet asserts that his wife as a sub-tenant erected and owned- the partitions, but they were put up pursuant to the lease and it governs. It does not appear by what tenure the defendant holds, but presumably traces its title through the lessor. The property consisted of a long.…
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