Kuperschmid v. Globe Brief Case Corp.

In these four actions, brought by landlords against tenants, consolidated for purposes of trial, plaintiffs seek to recover several monthly installments of rent falling due under four different leases. Two are for one year and two for two years. All of the leases were made, in 1944, with terms to commence, in one case, on January 1,1945 and, in the other three, on February 1,1945. Relying on section 7 of chapter 3 of the Laws of 1945, which took effect on January 24,1945, each of the defendant tenants asserts that the lease reserving the rent was unjust and unreasonable; on the basis of the…