Rosner v. Textile Binding & Trimming Co.

Plaintiffs’ three-year lease of “ commercial space ” (as defined in the Commercial Rent Law, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 3, as amd.; also McKinney’s Unconsol. Laws, § 8521), in defendant’s building, expired January 31, 1948. In October, 1947, *322defendant, by letter, notified plaintiffs that defendant would, at the lease’s end, require possession of the space for defendant’s immediate and personal use for commercial purposes. That letter threatened, also, that if plaintiffs failed to remove on January 31, 1948, defendant would evict plaintiffs and hold plaintiffs for defendant’s resulting damage or…