McMann v. Beaux Arts Apartments, Inc.

These are two actions in replevin in which the plaintiffs, husband and wife, who were formerly tenants in a residential building owned and operated by the defendant, seek to recover furniture and other articles of personal property withheld by the defendant, after the plaintiffs had been dispossessed from their apartment in a summary proceeding instituted by the defendant, as landlord, against Warren McMann, as tenant. The defendant withholds the property, claiming to have a lien thereon, both by the terms of the lease and also under the Lien Law.

The pertinent clause in the lease,…