Belnord Realty Co. v. Levison

McAvoy, J.:

The suit is on a covenant in a lease for rent. The tenant occupied the same premises under a prior lease, and on October 1, 1920, the date of the commencement of the term under the lease in suit, he was still in occupancy. The lease contains a paragraph numbered “ Sixteenth,” whereby it is agreed that notwithstanding anything therein contained • to the contrary, the premises are demised for the sum of $11,250 for the whole term, payable at the time of the making of the lease, ánd that the pro*416visions therein contained for the payment of the rent in installments, theretofore provided…