New York Court of Appeals December 18, 1906 (Martin v. . Babcock Wilcox Co.)

Willard Bartlett, J.

The plaintiffs’ predecessors in title, being the owners of a lot of land in the city of New York known as No. 29 Cortlandt street, with an adjacent gore fronting on Church street, on April 29, 1893, executed to the defendant corporation a, lease of the premises from May 1st, 1893, for a term of twelve years, at a yeaily rent of nine thousand dollars.