New York Supreme Court February 15, 1876 (Starkweather v. Quigley)

Barnard, P. J.:

A Mr. Powell, as attorney for the owners, made a lease of certain premises in Brooklyn, for five years, from April 18, 1872, to one Patrick Hays. Hays associated himself with one Finnigan, *27and was in possession under the lease, carrying on the business of selling liquors. They conveyed the business, with the personal property used in the business, to a Mrs.