Lazarowitz v. Kazan

This is a summary proceeding brought by the landlords to dispossess the tenants from the premises at Nos. 277-279 Bowery. The proceeding is brought under the provisions of section 1410, subdivision 5, of the Civil Practice Act (which provides that a landlord can dispossess a tenant from premises where the tenant is conducting on those premises an illegal business), and the landlords claim that the tenants are conducting on said premises an illegal business. The case is to be decided entirely on the pleadings and the evidence introduced by the landlord, as the tenants introduced no evidence…