New York Supreme Court October 3, 1908 (Lynch v. Robert P. Murphy Hotel Co.)

GIEGERICH, J.

The defendant Robert P. Murphy Hotel Company, on the one hand, and Bernard Lynch, the plaintiff, and the defendant Robert A. Pimot, his copartner, on the other, entered into a written agreement, dated March 10, 1908, whereby the said hotel company—

“agrees to lease the privilege of carriage service and taximeter cab service for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per year,