Strauss v. Hoch
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Martha F. Hoch, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of January, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $400, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of February, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to recover damages for a breach of a contract, by which the defendant rented to the plaintiffs a stand at the junction of Buschman’s walk and the board walk on the shore of the Atlantic ocean at Coney Island, with the exclusive privilege of selling frankfurters, hot corn, hamburger steaks and potato pancakes, and with an agreement on the part of the defendant to purchase of the plaintiffs any of these arti*570cles sold on the premises, known as Hoch’s Arcade, which consisted of a hotel, restaurant, dance hall and bathing pavilion adjacent to Buschman’s walk and to…
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- Benyakar v. ScherzAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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