Bronx Square Realty Corp. v. Wurman

This summary proceeding has been instituted for the nonpayment of the rent due for the month of March, 1949, for the tenant’s apartment. Similar proceedings were brought by this landlord against forty-eight other tenants in the same and adjacent buildings, known as ££ the cooperative apartments ”, in The Bronx, formerly owned by the Workers Colony Corporation. By stipulation, the parties agreed to have these proceedings tried together with separate final orders to be entered in each of them.

The answers of the tenants are similar. In addition to a general denial, they interpose two separate…