220 East 56th Street Corp. v. Excelsior Savings Bank

Plaintiff, in its complaint, demanded relief of an equitable nature, including the restitution to it of certain real property which it formerly possessed as tenant, and for money damages for the alleged unlawful ouster from said property. The court at Special Term dismissed the complaint, on the ground that a final order of dispossess, made by the Municipal Court in favor of the present defendant bank, in a hold-over proceeding in which said defendant was landlord and this plaintiff a tenant, was res adjudicata. The final order relied on has since been reversed, and an order made for the…