Legal Opinion

Orr v. Doubleday, Page & Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 24, 1916PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Doubleday, Page & Company, from a judgment of the County Court of Nassau county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 6th day of July, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 31st day of July, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

1Per curiam

The chief issue here is whether defendant, which had leased from John 0. Orr a building on East Sixteenth street, Manhattan, for ten years ending November 1, 1914, with an option of renewal, gave notice of intention to renew, by which defendant became liable for rent during the renewal term. Besides denying the averments as to such renewal, the amended answer asserts a defect of parties plaintiff. It alleges that three surviving Orr children, individually, had title on November 1, 1914, and, therefore, should be plaintiffs. Upon defendant’s removal, in October, 1910, from the borough of…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Poel v. . Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
  2. Chamberlain v. . TaylorNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  3. Stagg v. . JacksonNew York Court of Appeals · 1848
  4. Hausauer v. DahlmanNew York Supreme Court · 1893
  5. Orr v. OrrAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Thurston v. F. W. Woolworth Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1917
  2. Feig v. HartCity of New York Municipal Court · 1931
  3. Hartley v. GarnhamNew York Supreme Court · 1922

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