3175 Holding Corp. v. Schmidt

Lewis, David C., J.

The plaintiff, as landlord, and the defendant, as tenant, executed a written lease of an apartment in a New York city tenement house (otherwise designated a multiple dwelling). In the body of the lease we read the following clause: “ The tenant *854expressly releases the landlord from any liability for any damage by leakage, water, steam, gas, electricity, snow, rain, fallen or cracked plaster, heat, cold, damp, defective or interrupted telephone or other service, or any other matter, reason, cause or thing in whatsoever manner the same may be caused, nor shall any of said…