Summary
In Sam Priceman Constr. Co. v. Goldstein, 183 Misc. at 171-172, the court, while finding in the tenant's favor on the landlord's nuisance allegations and reversing the order of eviction, specifically noted that the landlord failed to prove an alternative basis for the eviction, i.e., that he had been issued a certificate allowing him to commence eviction proceedings on the ground that the tenant was an objectionable person under Rent Regulation for Housing in New York City Defense — Rental Area, § 6, subdivision (b), par. (1); 8 Fed. Reg. 13918 (1943).
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October 5, 1944.
Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, BREITBART, J.
Nathan H. Goldstein for appellant.
Seymour C. Simon for respondent.
MEMORANDUM
The landlord failed to prove that any written notice to desist from violating an obligation of the lease had been served upon the tenant and that he continued violation of such obligation thereafter; or that the tenant committed or permitted a nuisance (Rent Regulation for Housing in the New York City Defense-Rental Area, § 6, subd. [a], par. [3], eff. Nov. 1, 1943; 8 Fed. Reg. 13918) or that a certificate had been issued to permit institution of proceedings on the ground that the tenant was objectionable (Rent Regulation for Housing in the New York City Defense-Rental Area, § 6, subd. [b], par. [1]; 8 Fed. Reg. 13918). While the assault on the janitor was a cowardly act properly brought to the attention of the tenant's superiors, and he is too easily provoked to threats to shoot, nevertheless in the absence of proof of commission of a nuisance or written notice to desist from violating an obligation of the lease or a certificate authorizing a proceeding based on some ground not covered by the Office of Price Administration Regulation, the landlord failed to make a case. The final order should be reversed on the law, with ten dollars costs, and petition dismissed.
MacCRATE, McCOOEY and STEINBRINK, JJ., concur.
Order reversed, etc.