Opinion
July 9, 1945.
Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, RAFFERTY, J.
Robert S. Garson, Henry N. Rapaport and Allen H. Suffern for appellant.
Irving C. Nachbar for respondent.
MEMORANDUM
The tenant did not claim any fraud or duress in the execution of the lease. Under its terms occupancy was provided for four people and the rent fixed was predicated thereon. The fact that subsequently only two people occupied the apartment does not mean that the tenant was entitled to a lower rental on the basis of two-person occupancy. The rent as fixed for four-person occupancy is within the Office of Price Administration ceiling regulation (Rent Regulation for Hotels and Rooming Houses in New York City Defense-Rental Area, 8 Fed. Reg. 13910).
The final order should be modified by determining that the rent due is the sum of $208.34 and by directing judgment for said sum with interest and costs and as modified affirmed, with $25 costs to appellant.
HAMMER, SHIENTAG and EDER, JJ., concur.
Ordered accordingly.