Blumenfeld v. Neuman

This suit pertains to a lease of a fifty-foot lot for a term of three years at $50 per month, with option to renew for seven years additional, at the same rent. The lessor contends that the lease was intended to apply only to the “West Thirty Feet of” said lot, and that the quoted words were omitted by mutual mistake.

The lessee, Walter Blumenfeld, filed the suit asking for an injunction to restrain the defendant lessor, Leo Neuman, from continuing trespass upon a part of the said premises. The defendant answered, denying the trespass and setting out a special defense consisting of a detailed…