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114 A.D. 857

Weinberg v. Ely

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1906-07-24

Appeal by the plaintiff, Pesach Weinberg, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Richmond on the 3d day of January, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for nominal damages rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said cleric’s office on the 8th day of December, 1905, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

Relies on Cook v. . Soule

Decided 1906-07-24

Gaynor, J.:

¶1Counsel for the appellant persisted on the argument in criticising the summary disposition of the case by the learned trial judge as arbitrary, and the like. Such criticism was unfounded and out of place. It was for the tenant to protect his goods after the fire by covering them, moving them out, or by making the repairs himself at the landlord’s expense. The law did not tie his hands. The law. is not that he could neglect his goods, and recover of the landlord *859for damage done to them by the landlord’s neglect to repair (Cook v. Soule, 56 N. Y. 420). Nor did the lease bind the landlord to repair; it only provided that the repairs should be done at his expense.

¶2The j udgment and order should be affirmed.

¶3IIirschberg, P. J., Woodward and Hooker, JJ., concurred.

¶4Judgment and order affirmed, with costs. ‘

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