2006 New York Code - Remedy Of Person Evicted For Rents And Profits.

 
    §  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.