New York Laws
Article 11 - Proceeding to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life
1142 - Remedy of Person Evicted for Rents and Profits.

ยง 1142. Remedy of person evicted for rents and profits. A person
evicted as prescribed in this article may, if the presumption upon which
he is evicted is erroneous, maintain an action against the person who
has occupied the property, or his executor or administrator, to recover
the rents and profits of the property, during the occupation, while the
person upon whose life the prior estate depends is or was living.