Anderson v. Dodge
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Adelaide M. Anderson, from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan county in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 18th day of May, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury dismissing plaintiff’s complaint, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of June, 1912, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff and her infant son are owners in common of a house and lot in Callicoon, in the town of Delaware, Sullivan county, N. Y.; that the house is a double tenement house, and that the defendant occupied one-half of such house from the 1st day of August, 1910, to the 1st day of October, 1911, as a tenant, a period of fourteen months, and that during such time he has not paid any rent to the owners of said premises; that the value of the use and occupation of that portion of the house occupied by said defendant was fairly worth the sum of $13 per…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Emerson v. . SpicerNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Griffin v. ClarkNew York Supreme Court · 1860