Apex Binding Corp. v. Relkin

The plaintiff is a tenant of premises owned by the defendant. In October, 1947, defendant agreed to rent a floor for commercial purposes in premises at 70-72 Wooster Street, New York City. At that time and since, the premises were subject to the Commercial Bent Law (see L. 1945, eh. 3, and amendments thereof). According to the complaint, and for the purposes of this motion, it must be conceded that the emergency rent is a sum much less than $416.67 per month; that the landlord refused to rent the premises at the emergency rent; whereupon the landlord and the plaintiff entered into an…