Brokaw v. Sherry
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis Sherry, from a 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 3d day of July, 1913, upon the report of a referee appointed to hear and determine the issues. The original plaintiff, Isaac V. Brokaw, died pending the appeal to the Appellate Division, and his executors were substituted in his place.
1Opinion of the Court
Arthur H. Van Brunt, Referee:
Under date of June 5, 1896, the plaintiff Isaac V. Brokaw, as owner of the premises therein described at the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street in the city of ¡New York, entered- into two certain leases or contracts with the defendant Louis Sherry. By the first of these instruments, hereinafter termed the short lease, Brokaw leased to Sherry the land therein described for a term ending September 1, 1897, and Sherry agreed to “proceed forthwith to remove the buildings at present standing on the land above described and hereby leased, and to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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