New York State Investing Co. v. Wolf

The plaintiff sued for the July rent of an apartment under a written lease. The defense is a constructive eviction. It appears that the plaintiff, about March first, erected an electric light in a courtyard outside of the window of the defendant’s bedroom. The light was turned on every night at about ten p. m., when the lights in the halls of the apartment house were turned off. During March and April the defendant slept with the shade of his bedroom window drawn down. When the weather became warm about May first, the defendant kept the shade up, in order to procure more air. The light then…