Flanagan, Beck & Koeppel Enterprises, Inc. v. Speno

Plaintiff, a lessee conducting a dry-cleaning and laundry business in a small shopping center in Merrick, seeks a permanent injunction to restrain a cotenant, M & D Laundromat, Inc., from using coin-operated dry-cleaning machines on premises leased from the defendant landlords. Plaintiff operates its business pursuant to a lease entered into *263between the landlords and plaintiff’s predecessor in March of 1961. Plaintiff’s business is one that has come to be regarded as a standard custom dry-cleaning business, and includes the dry-cleaning and pressing of clothing and of household items such as…