New York Supreme Court October 3, 1853 (Wiggin v. Woodruff)

By the Court, Edwards, J.

The statute of “ summary proceedings to recover the possession of lands,” provides that any tenant at will, or at sufferance, or for part of a year, or for one or more years, of any houses, lands, or tenements; and the assigns, under-tenants, or legal representatives of such tenant, or lessee, may be removed, &c. (2 R. S. 512, § 28.