Carhart v. Ryder
New York Court of Common Pleas
Exceptions taken at a trial term of this court, ordered to be heard in the first instance at the General Term. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, J.
These actions were commenced to recover rent of certain premises in the City of New York, which were rented to one Hunnewell, for whom the defendant became security.
The answer sets up that for a long time previous to the alleged hiring set forth in the complaint, the said premises, being a furnished house, had with the permission and knowledge of the plaintiff been used and occupied as a brothel or house of prostitution and assignation, and had acquired such a reputation; that at the time of the letting to Hunnewell, the plaintiff, well knowing the bad character of the house, fraudulently…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wallace v. LentNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1865
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