Nystad & Krassner, Inc. v. Zerbe

Smith, J.:

The controversy arises upon the question whether a landlord occupying certain rooms in a dwelling and leasing other rooms under a hiring for more than a week, is within the -protection of the Rent Laws, so called, as to the rooms thus leased. Section 1 of chapter 136 of the Laws of 1920, as amended by chapter 664 of the Laws of 1922, provides: “ It shall be a defense to an action for rent accruing under an agreement for premises in a city of the first class or in a city in a county adjoining a city of the first class occupied for dwelling purposes that such rent is unjust and…