Weiss v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Plaintiffs move for an injunction staying the defendant and a city marshal from proceeding with a warrant to dispossess them from their apartment in premises owned by the defendant.

After the expiration of the tenants’ two-year lease on September 30, 1943, the landlord instituted summary holdover proceedings in the Municipal Court and obtained a final order on October 15, 1943, awarding it possession of the premises. However, the Municipal Court Justice simultaneously stayed all proceedings on the part of the landlord until January 15, 1944, and the tenants were continued in possession. In the…