Meyers v. Knights of Pythias Bronx Temple Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Peter Cooper Bryce and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Bronx Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Bronx on the 25th day of September, 1920, granting plaintiff’s motion for leave to serve and file a supplemental summons and complaint and staying -summary proceedings in the Municipal Court until the trial and determination of this action.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The executors of Edith C. Bryce owned some property upon which the Knights of Pythias desired to construct a building. They thereupon executed under seal a lease of said premises for the term of twenty-one years to the Knights of Pythias. The executors of the Bryce estate were to construct a building and the rent was to be determined upon the basis of the cost of that construction. It was contemplated to build a building which would cost about $100,000 or $120,000. The building, in fact, cost nearly twice that amount, so that upon the basis of the construction under the terms of the…
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