Seventy-eighth Street & Broadway Co. v. Rosenbaum

The plaintiff brings this action to recover the firs! installment of rent falling due under a written lease for one year and six months. The lease was executed on March 22, 1920. The defendant sets up as a defense that he was in possession of the premises under a lease commencing April 1, 1919, that the lease upon which the action is brought provides for a rental which represents an increase of more than twenty-five per cent over the rent as it existed one year prior thereto and that the rent demanded is unjust, unreasonable and oppressive, and that the agreement under which the same is…