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10 Misc. 47

Wallace v. Dimmony

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided October 15, 1894

City of New York Municipal Court · decided 1894-10-15

<p>In an action for rent claimed to be due under a lease to the defendant, who admits the making of the lease, but claims to have sold his business to a corporation which took possession, where there is no proof of a surrender of the original lease, and it appears that the corporation refused to make a new one, a direction of a verdict for the plaintiff is proper.</p>

Decided 1894-10-15

Rewbubgeb, J.

¶1This action is for ten months’ rent due under a lease.

¶2The defendant admits the making of the lease, but claims to have sold his business to a corporation which took possession of the premises, and that the plaintiff accepted said corporation as a tenant.

¶3*48At the close of the defendant’s case the trial justice directed a verdict for the plaintiff, to which defendant duly excepted.

¶4There is no evidence in the case showing any surrender of the original lease.

¶5The evidence clearly shows that the corporation refused to make a new lease.

¶6The direction was a proper one, and the judgment must be affirmed, with costs.

¶7Ehelioh, Oh. J., concurs.

¶8Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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