Picker v. Irving Trust Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in a proceeding under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C.A. § 207) reducing the amount claimed as rent under a lease by the appellants to the above debtor, United Cigar Stores Company. The lease was for a term of 21 years from May 1, 1927, and covered buildings at Nos. 684, 686, and 688 Lexington avenue, New York City. It recited that the tenant was to pay specified monthly rentals and also “as additional rent, all taxes, assessments, water rents, ordinary and extraordinary and other charges on said property as and when…