Banks v. Carter
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from tl judgment of this court, entered upon a verdict in favor of the defendant, Carter, rendered at a trial at trial term before Judge Robinson and a jury, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial on the minutes.
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Appeal from tl judgment of this court, entered upon a verdict in favor of the defendant, Carter, rendered at a trial at trial term before Judge Robinson and a jury, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial on the minutes. The action was brought to recover arrears of rent, and for damages arising from the defendant’s leaving cumbersome personal property on the premises after the expiration of notice to quit, whereby plaintiff was deprived of the interest on purchase money until the property could be removed and a purchaser put in possession, and for money expended by plaintiff in…
1Opinion of the Court
Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice.
The tenancy was one of uncertain duration. It was, as the plaintiff’s counsel conceded upon the trial, a tenancy from month to month, which *419the parties had agreed could be determined by the landlord upon a notice of thirty days. Being thus in the nature of a tenancy at will, the thirty days’ notice had to he given in the mode prescribed by the Revised Statutes, 1 Rev. Stat. 745, §§ 7, 8,—that is, by delivering a notice' in writing to the tenant or to a person of proper age residing on the premises, or if the tenant could not be found, and there was no person…
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- Curley v. TomlinsonNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1874
- People Ex Rel. Botsford v. . DarlingNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
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