Coe v. . Hobby
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. (Reported below, 7 Hun, 157.) This action was brought to recover $1,250 for a quarter’s rent alleged to be due August 1st, 1873, under a lease to defendant of certain premises situate iu the city of Hew York.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. (Reported below, 7 Hun, 157.) This action was brought to recover $1,250 for a quarter’s rent alleged to be due August 1st, 1873, under a lease to defendant of certain premises situate iu the city of Hew York. The defendants were tenants under a lease, under seal, for ten years from May, 1869, at an annual rent of $5,000, executed by Louisa A. Ingersoll, then the owner of the fee, who, on the 15th May, 1873, conveyed the premises,…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The matter in controversy is but two hundred and fifty dollars, and the interest on that sum—in all less than five hundred dollars. The only question involved is whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover for the quarter’s rent of the demised premises, conceded to be due and owing at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum. It was said upon the argument, when the attention of counsel was called to the question whether an appeal could be brought, except upon leave granted, that the appeal had been brought before the passage of the act of 1874 limiting appeals to this court. This was…
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