CITY BANK FARMERS TRUST CO. v. HARVEY'S GARAGES, INC.


278 A.D. 917 (1951)

City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Trustee under Indenture of Trust Made by William W. Astor, Respondent, v. Harvey's Garages, Inc., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 19, 1951.


In our opinion, however, the statute contemplates a taking of possession in connection with an existing business of the landlord or its subsidiary, and not the formation of a corporation for the purpose of embarking upon and taking over the business of the tenant. To construe the statute otherwise would work an evasion or circumvention of the purposes of the emergency legislation. We think that the landlord in this case has failed to establish the good faith required by the...

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