Seventy-Eighth Street & Broadway Co. v. Arches

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

Seventy-Eighth Street & Broadway Co. v. Arches

76 Misc. 438, 135 N.Y.S. 4

CourtAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

DecidedMay 15, 1912

StatusPublished

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Seventy-Eighth Street & Broadway Co. v. Arches, 76 Misc. 438, 135 N.Y.S. 4 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1912).

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Seabury, J.

This is an action for rent. The defendants plead a counterclaim for damages for an alleged partial evic[439]*439tion. Against the defendants’ counterclaim, the plaintiff relies upon a final order heretofore made in favor of the plaintiff and against these defendants in summary proceedings. This final order was res adjudicate/, upon the issue as to whether the defendants, as tenants, continued in possession of the premises, and as to whether the defendants defaulted in the payment of the rent reserved. Reich v. Cochran, 151 N. Y. 122; Meyerhoffer v. Baker, 121 App. Div. 797. If the defendants had been evicted, it is clear that they could not have continued in possession, and that rent was not due. To allow the defendants now to set up the defense of eviction is to permit them to controvert facts essential to the plaintiff’s right to the final order. The direct converse of what these defendants have been permitted to prove was conclusively established by the final order.

It follows that the judgment "should be reversed, arid a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

Guy. and Gerard, JJ., concur.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide "event.

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Seabury, J.

This is an action for rent. The defendants plead a counterclaim for damages for an alleged partial evic[439]*439tion. Against the defendants’ counterclaim, the plaintiff relies upon a final order heretofore made in favor of the plaintiff and against these defendants in summary proceedings. This final order was res adjudicate/, upon the issue as to whether the defendants, as tenants, continued in possession of the premises, and as to whether the defendants defaulted in the payment of the rent reserved. Reich v. Cochran, 151 N. Y. 122; Meyerhoffer v. Baker, 121 App. Div. 797. If the defendants had been evicted, it is clear that they could not have continued in possession, and that rent was not due. To allow the defendants now to set up the defense of eviction is to permit them to controvert facts essential to the plaintiff’s right to the final order. The direct converse of what these defendants have been permitted to prove was conclusively established by the final order.

It follows that the judgment "should be reversed, arid a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

Guy. and Gerard, JJ., concur.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide "event.

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