McCombs v. Hegarty

The plaintiff was the tenant of the defendants, occupying the first floor apartment in the two-family house at 1644 Edison Ave., in the north-east Bronx. The defendants lived upstairs. Their relationship of landlord and tenant had deteriorated into an unhappy association enforced upon them by the emergency rent laws, on the one hand, and by the housing shortage on the other. The landlords, restive under this yoke, had made some attempt before the Temporary State Housing Rent Comission to rid themselves of the plaintiff. These efforts culminated in failure. No doubt the landlords found their…