Reich v. Cochran
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lorenz Reich, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of September, 1917, on the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term of certain issues pursuant to an order of the Appellate Division, First Department.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
This litigation has been in the courts of this State for thirty years. The plaintiff held a lease of the Hotel Cambridge from the trustees of the estate of William B. Astor for a term of five years from May 1, 1886, with a privilege of renewal for a further term of fifteen years. In making alterations and furnishing the hotel he became indebted to William F. Cochran in the sum, as plaintiff claims, of $185,000, although *250he states in the complaint that Cochran claimed that the debt was $275,000. Upon threat of suit to collect the debt, Reich assigned the Astor lease to Cochran and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Pray v. . HegemanNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Reich v. . CochranNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Reich v. . CochranNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- The People Ex Rel. Ainslee v. . HowlettNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Rives v. . BartlettNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
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