Mauser v. Locurto

The tenant prior to April 1, 1946 and since 1940 occupied unenclosed space in a public market as a retail butcher shop at a rental of $50 per month. On April 1, 1946 he entered into a lease with the then landlord Joanbar Corp. for “ one half of market as now laid out.” Thereafter a second lease was executed (landlord’s Exhibit 2), wherein Joanbar Corp. leased to the same tenant “ butcher store as now laid out and known as 4156-A White Plains Boad, Bronx, New York City,” for a term of three years and six months, to commence from the first day of October, 1950, and ending March 31, 1954, “to be…