Flegenheimer v. Dreyer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Gustav Dreyer, from a final order in summary proceedings to recover the possession of real property, made by the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, and entered on the 14th day of January, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The defendant interposed an answer to the petition in this proceeding, setting up a general denial and a counterclaim under the title of a second defense. The counterclaim alleged that after the making of the lease “ it was agreed by and between the plaintiff and this defendant that the defendant surrender to the plaintiff herein the said premises and that the plaintiff would accept such surrender and pay to the defendant Gustav Dreyer the sum of five hundred (§500.00) dollars for the surrender of the said leasehold.” It further alleged that by reason of the failure of…
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