Per Curiam.
Summary proceedings were designed to provide the landlord with a simple, expeditious, and inexpensive means of regaining possession of his premises for nonpayment of rent. The proceedings should not be so hypercritically restricted as to destroy the very remedy which they are designed to afford. (Reich v. Cochran, 201 N.Y. 450.)
The cases following Reich v. Cochran (supra) have indicated a clear trend to disregard picayune...
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