The Superior Court of New York City May 8, 1877 (Pursell v. New York Life Insurance & Trust Co.)

Sanford, J.

The plaintiff, tenant under a lease from defendants and holding over after default in the payment of rent, was dispossessed of the demised premises, on September 4, 1874, by virtue of a warrant issued under the act authorizing “ summary proceedings to recover the possession of land” (2 R. S. 515, § 39).