Legal Opinion
Price v. Hoyle
New York County Courts
Decided May 13, 1975PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHarry Edelstein, J.
This date marks the 129th anniversary of the abolition in the State of New York of distress for rent. It is anachronistic that a point of law settled during the second quarter of the nineteenth century should be an issue between parties in a civil action at the close of the third, quarter of the twentieth century. Yet, the plaintiff finds it necessary to take legal action to undo the defendant landlord’s reincarnation of a late and unlamented mode of self-help.
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