Graves v. Berdan
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL "by the defendant from a judgment of the city . court of Brooklyn. The action was brought to recover a quarter’s rent claimed to be due upon a lease executed by the plaintiff to the defendant. The plaintiff had judgment for the amount claimed, with costs.
1Opinion of the CourtEmott, J.
The defendant hired of the plaintiff certain rooms and passage ways in, the basement, the ground story and on the second floor of a large building in Brooklyn, by a lease under seal for a term of five years from May 1, 1856. The same building was occupied by a number of other persons, to whom different apartments were separately let. The lease contained a covenant by the defendant, to pay the rent. The building was accidentally but completely destroyed by fire on the 6th day of May, 1857, and no erection has been substituted for it by the plaintiff of a height equal to the second floor of the…
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