Brooklyn Improvement Co. v. Lewis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Brooklyn Improvement Company, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Mew York, borough of Brooklyn, in favor of the defendant, rendered on the 14th day .of October, 1909, sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
The complaint attempts to state two causes of action, and defendant is sued both individually and in liis representative capacity. . It is not attacked upon the ground that causes of action have been improperly united. If, therefore, it states a cause of action against the defendant in either capacity, the demurrer should have been overruled. In the first cause of action the complaint alleges, the ownership by plaintiff of a piece of real property in the borough of Brooklyn, which it describes; that the same was leased to the .Bracken-MeAveney Company, by a written lease to commence…
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