Givens v. Goldstein

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment in an action for possession of real estate. The property involved is a three-story house which defendant had rented from a former owner. Defendant did not live on the premises but operated it as a rooming house accommodating some twenty persons. In September 1946 plaintiffs bought the property and on October 2nd served a thirty-day notice to quit on defendant. They followed this notice on November 6th with a landlord-tenant suit in which they claimed possession on the ground that they required the property for their immediate and…