Fleming v. Ryan
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from first district court. Summary proceedings by Charles E. Fleming and another, landlords, against Martin F. Ryan and Johanna Ryan, tenants. Possession of the premises was awarded to the tenants, and the landlords ■appeal. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
By answer to a petition in summary proceedings for defendant’s dispossession. from certain premises, it was *225set up that the tenant Johanna Ryan held under a lease made by plaintiffs to certain parties, she being the tenant under a sublease from the latter. Upon the trial this defense was totally abandoned, and it was sought to be shown either that the tenant had been given a lease by one Burnham, plaintiff’s agent, or, failing this, that a lease had been given verbally by one Place, claimed also to have been such an agent, to Martin Ryan, and by him assigned to her. It appears clearly from…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Brown v. SullivanNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1892
- Broadway & Seventh-Avenue Railroad v. MetzgerNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1891
- Siefke v. SiefkeNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893
- Sier v. BacheNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1894
- Rubenstein v. KahnNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893
3Cited by3 opinions
- Fleming v. RyanNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1894
- Miller v. BarnettAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
- Ireland v. HydeAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1901