Two families who holidayed in the Hamptons this summer have sued the landlords, alleging that the air conditioning in their rented house was two degrees above their preferred setting.
Toby Cohen, a lawyer, and Jonathan Neman, a dentist, paid $10,000 to rent a house in East Quogue, on Long Island, for themselves and their families for two weeks. They say the agreement they signed assured them that the house had central air conditioning, but when they arrived with their wives and children they found it was cooled only by “a single, small air conditioning unit” that was controlled by a thermostat.
This “had been set to a minimum temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit and then locked”. Their party included a woman who was eight months
