Caine v. Carreker

OPINION OF THE COURT

Final judgment entered December 7,1981 reversed, with $30 costs, and final judgment directed in favor of tenant dismissing the petition.

The stabilized apartment at issue was occupied by tenant under a two-year lease expiring August 31, 1981. In March of that year, tenant was advised by landlords’ attorneys that Lynda Beattie, one of the property’s four joint owners, wished to occupy the apartment. Holdover *420summary proceedings were brought on that basis in September, 1981, but thereafter discontinued when Beattie elected to take possession of another apartment in the…