Opinion
June 19, 1958
Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, PELHAM ST. GEORGE BISSELL, 3D, J.
Richard E. Bauman for appellant.
Elliott A. Ferber for respondent.
A motion for summary judgment pursuant to rule 113 is unavailable to the petitioner tenant in this summary proceeding. The statutory remedy may be utilized by a plaintiff or by a petitioner movant only if the cause of action falls within one of the nine subdivisions of the rule. ( Feyh v. Brandtgen Kluge, 283 App. Div. 807).
The final order in favor of the petitioner tenant should be reversed, with $10 costs to the appellant landlord, and motion for summary judgment denied.
The motion to dismiss the appeal should be denied, without costs.
HOFSTADTER, J.P., and TILZER, J., concur; HECHT, J., concurs in result.
Final order reversed, etc.