108 N.Y.S. 894 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1908
This action is based upon a contract made on the 4th of October, ‘ 1905, between “ L. P. Roberts, Manager of the Murray Hill Hotel, Hew York, party of the first part, and Virginia D. Hess, Manager of the Broadway Stenographic Bureau, Hew York, party of the second
This instrument is called a lease although it is' nothing of the kind; it is a mere agreement to allow a stenographer and typewritér to carry on business in a hotel. The plaintiff is given the right to carry on the business of stenographer and typewriter in the hotel, and for that purpose is to have the exclusive privilege of the public stenographer’s office. But it was expressly agreed that if the services ■ rendered • by the plaintiff were not satisfactorily performed the agreement could be revoked “ without appeal by said first party,” and the plaintiff' had a like privilege for any cause. Under such a contract it is quite clear that neither party could insist upon maintaining the agreement against the opposition of the other.’ It is quite immaterial that the defendant did not state that, the serv- , ice was unsatisfactory when he revoked the agreement; his revoking it was sufficient evidence of his determination that the service was not satisfactory. The defendant’s affidavit stating as a reason for revoking the agreement that the plaintiff was conducting some business 'other than that of stenography and typewriting and that people were calling on her at the hotel and Snaking demands for money which interfered with the management of the hotel, justified him in determining that the service was not satisfactory. But assum- , ing that the defendant had.no right to '.revoke the agreement and prevent plaintiff from continuing this business at the hotel, she had a complete remedy at law and an appeal to'a court of equity was unnecessary and unjustifiable. There is no question as to the defendant’s responsibility, and the fact that the lucrative season for the. plaintiff’s woi'k extends from January to June should only be a reason for increased damages if’ there was a breach of the contract. The cases which have restrained a landlord from interfering with a
The order should, therefore, .be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to continue the in junction denied, with ten dollars costs.
Patterson, P. J., Laughlin, Clarke and Houghton, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, wilh ten dollars costs.