Akos Realty Corp. v. Hixon

In this summary proceeding respondent landlord

is seeking to evict tenant appellant on grounds that (1) use of her washing machine constituted a substantial violation of the lease; (2) that a nuisance was committed by tenant in that machine was negligently operated in such a manner as to cause same to overflow on several occasions and/or she deliberately and repeatedly discarded debris from her apartment windows, and (3) that waste was committed by this tenant in that she deliberately cut the building plumbing lines. Maintenance of a washing machine absent any agreement in the lease to the…