Ward v. Union Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, J. Langdon Ward and others, as trustees, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of June, 1915, dismissing the complaint upon the merits upon a decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The facts material to this appeal are as follows: The plaintiffs by two prior leases had let the premises to the Plaza Bank for terms of ten and six years respectively, each of which contained a clause requiring the tenants to pay taxes similar to the one contained in the lease in suit, by virtue of which the annual taxes imposed upon the premises for the years from 1893 to 1908, inclusive, were paid by the tenant. On the expiration of the second of these leases, the Plaza Bank, as tenant, entered into possession of the premises, under a lease with the plaintiffs for a term of five…
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