Jarchin v. Rubin

Judgments unanimously reversed upon the law, with fifteen dollars costs in each case to appellant, and complaints dismissed, with appropriate costs in the court below.

A landlord is not hable in damages for injuries received by a tenant because of a failure to make repairs in the leased premises even though the landlord has agreed to make them. (Boden v. Scholtz, 101 App. Div. 1; Kushes v. Ginsberg, 99 id. 417.) This rule, however, is not applicable in the case of tenement houses, where, because of the provisions of the Tenement House Law, the landlord may be held- (Altz v. Leiberson, 233 N.…