Stieffel v. Tolhurst
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Tolhurst and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New . York on the 22d day of July, 1901, upon the decision of the court, ' rendered after a trial at the Yew York Special Term, sustaining the plaintiffs’ demurrers to certain defenses contained in the answers ofothe defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This action was brought to recover the rent due under a certain lease made by the plaintiffs to a corporation originally incorporated as L. J. Wing & Company, and now known as the Manhattan Machinery Company. The complaint alleges that on the 5th day of March, 1891, the plaintiffs rented to this corporation certain • premises known as Yo. 109 Liberty street, in the city of Yew York, for a term of five years from May 1, 1891, to May 1, 1899, the rent for the first four years to be $5,000 per annum and for the last year to be $5,500, payable in equal monthly payments in advance;…
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