Robb v. Cinema Francais, Inc.

Fifteen of the twenty-one tenants of defendant’s eleven-story apartment building at 31 West 12th Street here complain that defendant has curtailed or eliminated essential services which were being furnished when they first became tenants in the building and on March 1, 1943, and on March 31, 1948, and they sue to compel defendant to restore such services and for damages and other relief.

Consolidated with their action are thirteen proceedings brought by defendant in the Municipal Court against thirteen of the plaintiffs to dispossess them for nonpayment of the rent which became due November 1,…