Paddell v. Janes
New York Supreme Court
Action for specific performance found upon a covenant in a lease.
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
This is an action for specific performance founded upon a covenant in a lease which gives the tenant, who is the plaintiff here, an option to purchase the demised premises for $60,000. By an instrument made the 17th day of May, 1901, Jane M. Janes, now deceased, leased to plaintiff certain premises in the city of New York on the southerly side of Forty-second street, distant about eig'hty feet westerly from Seventh avenue, and known as No. 208 West Forty-*215second street, for the term of twenty-one years," commencing on the 1st day of May, 1901, .and ending on the 13th day of April, 1922, at an…
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