Waitt Construction Co. v. Chase
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Waitt Construction Company, Inc., from an order and determination of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, First Department, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of February, 1921, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Fifth District, in favor of the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action is for rent for the month of October, 1920, for rooms in a building known as' the George Washington at No. 116 West Seventy-second street in the city of New York. The defendant held under a written lease dated April 9, 1920. The only defense interposed was that the rent sought to be recovered for the rooms is unjust and unreasonable and that the agreement under which the same is sought to be recovered is oppressive. This form of defense in an action for rent is provided for by chapter 944 of the Laws of 1920, which *329amended generally and superseded chapter 136 of the Laws…
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