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34 Misc. 796

Rosenthal v. Cohen

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · decided 1901-04-15

<p>Appeal from a judgment rendered by the justice of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, for the seventh district, in favor of the plaintiff.</p> <p>Action for rent.</p>

Decided 1901-04-15

Bischoff, P. J.

¶1The plaintiff’s testimony shows the making of the lease, and, while the defendant contradicted him, the preponderance of the evidence was readily to be found with the *797plaintiff if the justice, after observing the demeanor of the two opposing witnesses, was impressed with the better credibility of that party.

¶2The check produced by the defendant, to support his claim of payment, was drawn in an amount which does not correspond with the rent thus asserted to have been paid, and the probabilities are certainly not against the plaintiff’s testimony that this check was in payment of an indebtedness upon other transactions which admittedly took place between the parties.

¶3The finding of the justice upon this simple conflict of fact presents nothing for this court to review.

¶4Leventritt and Clárke, JJ., concur.

¶5Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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