United Security Corp. v. Suchman

I would affirm here.

By the judgment in the mortgage foreclosure action to which defendant as tenant was a party, the tenant’s lease expired just as if its term had run out, and, were it not for the emergency rent laws, there would thereafter have been no landlord-tenant relationship and summary proceedings would not have been available (Greene v. Geiger, 46 App. Div. 210; Commonwealth Mtge. Co. v. De Waltoff, 135 App. Div. 33, 35). But the emergency rent laws gave an occupant with an expired lease the status of a “ tenant ” if he chose to remain in possession (Wasservogel v. Meyerowitz, 300…