Legal Opinion

Aldridge v. Stuyvesant

The Superior Court of New York City

Decided October 15, 1828PublishedCited by 3 opinions

This was a special action on the case for disturbing the plaintiff’s tenants. The declaration contained three counts. The first set forth, that the plaintiff was possessed of an unexpired term of a house in the city of New-York, which he had rented to certain tenants for one year.

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This was a special action on the case for disturbing the plaintiff’s tenants. The declaration contained three counts. The first set forth, that the plaintiff was possessed of an unexpired term of a house in the city of New-York, which he had rented to certain tenants for one year. That the tenants entered upon the premises, and were in the quiet possession thereof; when the defendant well knowing that they rightfully held and enjoyed the same as tenants, but contriving wrongfully and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, came to the premises and threatened the said tenants and their…

1Opinion of the CourtOakley, J.

This is a special action on the case. The first count of the declaration sets forth, in substance, that the plaintiff was possessed of the unexpired term of a certain house, and demised the same for one year to certain persons, who entered, and were in the quiet possession of the same as the tenants of the plaintiff: that the defendant knowing that they rightfully so held possession, as tenants of the plaintiff, and wrongfully and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, came to the premises, and threatened to seize the goods of the tenants then lying on the premises : that by means of…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. S. C. Posner Co. v. JacksonNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
  2. Lee v. Massachusetts Fire & Marine InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
  3. Barbee v. ShannonCourt Of Appeals Of Indian Territory · 1897

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