Trustees of Columbia University v. Griffiths

• Quinn, J. P.

(dissenting). The background of events and history of litigation between the parties to this suit, though largely irrelevant to the resolution of the issues presented, are fairly stated in the majority opinion.

The grant of the term for years, by the written lease here in question, was the quid pro quo, furnished by the landlord, in exchange for tenant’s surrender of his valuable right of review of the order of decontrol (beneficial to landlord) pending before the rent commission. The compromise by which the parties thus settled their differences was thereupon concluded as a…