¶1The action was for trespass in “ forcibly and wrongfully entering upon the plaintiffs’ premises and depriving the plaintiffs of the use and enjoyment thereof.”
¶2Upon the trial it appeared that the plaintiffs were tenants of the defendant with respect to two stores and basements in the houses known as Uos. 160 and 162 East Fifty-sixth street in the city of Uew York; that about January, 1892, the plain tiffs had abandoned the use of the premises; that the lease contained a provision by which the defendant, as landlord, was permitted to show the premises to persons wishing to hire or purchase.
¶3The lease expired in May, 1892, and the premises had become dilapidated.
¶4Plaintiffs gave the key to defendant for the purpose, as they state, of showing the premises to persons wishing to hire or purchase, but as the defendant contends, so that he might renovate the premises and make them presentable to a tenant, and thus induce a hiring after May 1, 1892.
¶5The jury, as juries often do in cases of this character, rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for six cents, and this the trial judge set aside as inadequate.
¶6There was no forcible entry by the defendant, no eviction and no forcible keeping out of the plaintiffs.
¶7The most that can be said is, that the defendant exceeded his license and put the premises in good order and condition.
¶8This act of the defendant resulted in no injury to the plaintiffs ; indeed, it tended to make the premises more valuable to them, for they had a right to use them, improvements and all, to the 1st of May, 1892, and they were not excluded from the exercise of this right by any act of the defendant.
¶9The damages being unliquidated, and the trespass of a trifling rather than of a substantial character, the jury had the right to fix the amount at six cents — a result quite common *229in actions of this kind. See Wavle v. Wavle, 9 Hun, 125 ; Toomey v. R. R. Co., 2 Misc. Rep. 84, 85.
¶10For these reasons the order granting a new trial must be reversed, with costs.
¶11Van Wyck and McCarthy, JJ., concur.
¶12Order reversed, with costs.