Southern Leasing Co. v. Ludwig
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Southern Leasing Company, 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 8th day of April, 1915, denying its motion for an injunction pendente lite.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is a taxpayer’s action to restrain the defendant Ludwig, superintendent of buildings of the borough of Manhattan, from permitting the erection of a sky sign.
The defendant Mecca Realty Company is the lessee under a long term lease of a large building on the northerly side of Forty-eighth street occupying the whole frontage between Seventh avenue and Broadway. It has maintained for some time upon the roof of said building a sky sign about 80 feet high. On February 17, 1914, the defendant Ludwig, as superintendent of buildings, issued a permit to the Mecca Realty Company to…
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