Joseph v. Lidsky

This is an action by a landlord to recover two months ’ rent from the tenant as damages for failure of the tenant to give proper written notice of removal. The tenant alleges constructive eviction and interposes one counterclaim for $92 being the amount of security deposited with the *607predecessor landlord and a second counterclaim for $184 being two months’ rent as and for the constructive eviction for the months of January and February, 1961. The tenant also makes a money claim for moving expenses as an item of damage.

The tenant, a physician, was a statutory tenant in a six-room apartment…