Humphries v. Shapiro
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Arthur G. Humphries and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of February, 1919, denying their motion to be relieved from a stipulation discontinuing the action as against the defendants Slensby and Wolff.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, P. J.:
This action was commenced in October, 1917. The defendants appeared by Messrs. Slensby & Wolff as their attorneys and issue was joined in December, 1917, by the service of answers of each of the defendants by the same attorneys. The action was brought to recover over $300,000 for the breach of a contract on the part of the defendants in failing to give possession under oral lease made between the plaintiffs and defendants of certain real property which lease was made for a period of one year with the option to renew for a period of four years, the amount claimed being the…
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