Larkin v. Radosta
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the-plaintiff, John Larkin, from, an order of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn* rendered on the 11th day of September, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The tenant had been in possession under a monthly tenancy- for about 12 years. On the landlord’s agent raising his rent from $16 to $17 a month, the tenant asked the agent for a 3 years’lease. He made and delivered to him such a lease in writing; not in the landlord’s name, however, but in his own name. If, nevertheless, we deem it the landlord’s lease .(for it was not' under seal), it was void because . the agent had no written authority toi-make it. Section 207 of the Beal Property Law requires written authority to an agent to make a lease for his landlord for. more than one year…
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