Searle Blatt & Co., Ltd. v. Zurich Holding Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered January 30, 1997, which, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiff tenant’s motion for partial summary judgment declaring defendant landlord’s repair obligations under the parties’ lease, unanimously modified, on the law, to declare that the landlord is responsible for repairing all latent structural defects in the building that are not within the space leased by the tenant and, regardless of their location, were not caused by plaintiff, and otherwise affirmed, with costs to plaintiff.

Inasmuch as the landlord interprets…