Kashdan v. Wilker Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Wilker Realty Co., Inc., and another, from a judgment of the County Court of Bronx county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Bronx on the 26th day of October, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of November, 1920, denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
This is an action for damages for malicious abuse of process. The landlord of No. 1537 Fulton avenue raised the rent of his tenants, about thirty in number, two dollars per month from October 1, 1919. The tenants held a meeting and decided not to pay. Thereupon the landlord instituted dispossess proceedings against nineteen tenants, of whom the plaintiff was one, returnable on October 6, 1919. On October sixth the plaintiff appeared and paid into court twenty-five dollars, the amount of the rent which had been paid for the preceding month, and the case was set for trial on October…
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