Tenement House Department v. Moeschen

The plaintiff moves for an order enjoining the defendant from maintaining a school sink on the premises owned by her at No. 332 East Thirty-ninth street, borough of Manhatl an, and directing her to substitute therefor, either in the yard or house, one water closet for every two families in the tenement house built on said lot. The plaintiff shows in its complaint and by affidavits that prior to April 12, 1901, “ said tenement house was, and since said date has been, continuously occupied and fitted up to be occupied as the residence of three or more families — nineteen families in all —…