Opinion
A-3059-22
05-16-2024
72-74 4TH ST HOLDINGS, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ADISHA BROOKS and MICHAEL GIBSON, Defendants-Respondents
Ofeck & Heinze, LLP, attorneys for appellant (Patrick J. Jordan V, on the brief).
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Submitted April 16, 2024
On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Essex County, Docket No. LT-002288-23.
Ofeck & Heinze, LLP, attorneys for appellant (Patrick J. Jordan V, on the brief).
Respondents have not filed a brief.
Before Judges Rose and Smith.
PER CURIAM
In this landlord-tenant action, plaintiff 72-74 4th St Holdings, LLC appeals from an April 25, 2023 order dismissing its eviction complaint against defendants Adisha Brooks and Michael Gibson. Having been advised by plaintiff's counsel, after the appeal was filed, defendants "are no longer in possession of the subject premises," we dismiss the appeal as moot. See Sudersan v. Royal, 386 N.J.Super. 246, 251 (App. Div. 2005) (holding "where a tenant no longer resides in the property, an appeal challenging the propriety of an eviction is moot" unless "the eviction carries residual legal consequences potentially adverse to [the] defendant"); see also Ctr. Ave. Realty, Inc. v. Smith, 264 N.J.Super. 344, 347 (App. Div. 1993) (recognizing where the defendant "vacated the premises . . . his right to remain in the premises as a successor tenant under the terms of the original lease and subject to removal only under the Anti-Eviction Law, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1, presents a moot question that we need not decide"); Daoud v. Mohammad, 402 N.J.Super. 57, 61 (App. Div. 2008).
Based on our review of the record, we discern no residual legal consequences resulting from issuance of the April 25, 2023 order. We therefore dismiss the appeal as moot.