Koppel v. Evelyn

This rent nonpayment proceeding involves the interesting question of whether a landlord may receive an increased rent where the tenant of an apartment dies leaving in sole occupancy his son, who had been continuously residing therein with his father prior to the latter’s death.

The landlord made a demand upon the surviving son of a rent at 15% higher than that last paid on the premise that a new tenancy came into being and that therefore the increase is permissible under the statute.

This is a novel point on which the attorneys for the parties submitted no law and. the court in its research has…