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6 Sandf. 369

Howard v. Ellis

The Superior Court of New York City

Decided January 11, 1851

The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1851-01-11

The complaint in this action was filed for the purpose of obtaining a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants, Beach and Lockhart, from using or occupying the premises on the corner of Reade-street and Broadway, in the lower story of the Irving House, for the purpose of a hat store, or for making and selling hats, or for any other purpose, and also to restrain the defendant, Ellis, from permitting the premises to be used for any other purpose than as a jewelry and…

Relies on Benson v. Bolles

Decided 1851-01-11

Sandford, J.

¶1The defendants, Tiffany and Beach & Lock-hart, attempt to separate themselves from .Ellis, and boldly assuming that they are trespassers, insist .that there is no privity *374of- contract or estate between them and the plaintiff. It is an-ingenious attempt to obtain a rent from, the premises by using tbem for a purpose prohibited in the lease, but it cannot prevail. The facts prove too plainly to admit of a' doubt, that Tiffany, and Beach. & Lockhart through him, entéred into the possession of these premises by the consent or permission of Ellis. All the circumstances point irresistibly to that conclusion. The consequence is, that Beach & Lockhart must be considered, in respect of the plaintiff’s rights, as substituted in the place of Ellis, the plaintiff’s lessee. (Benson v. Bolles, 8 Wend. 175.)

¶2Treating them as standing in the place of Ellis, the plaintiff is entitled to an injunction to restrain the use of the premises in violation of the restriction in the lease. This was decided in a like case in Steward v. Winters, (1 Sand. Ch. R. 587,) and it is unnecessary for me to repeat the grounds upon which the court thus interferes. The code of procedure does not alter the rule of equity respecting the allowance of injunctions.

¶3• As to the parol license from the plaintiff, set up in the defendant’s affidavits, it suffices to say, for the purposes of this motion, that it is fully denied.

¶4Motion to dissolve the injunction denied.

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