Mend-Foley v. Spencer Management Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kenneth W. Rudolph, J.

In the case at bar plaintiff maintains this action, upon the grounds of unlawful eviction proceedings. In each of four separate causes of action plaintiff seeks damages in excess of this court’s monetary jurisdiction powers.1

*472The question at bar is whether a City Court outside the City of New York has jurisdiction power over a case beyond its monetary jurisdiction to entertain a motion to reduce the ad damnum clause to bring the case within the court’s jurisdiction.

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