GINSBERG v. YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY


45 A.D.2d 334 (1974)

Stanley A. Ginsberg et al., Respondents, v. Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

July 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladstone, Lowell, Karassik & Mondschein (Stanley H. Lowell and Frank A. Romano of counsel), for appellant.

Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan (Edward L. Sadowsky of counsel), for respondents.

GULOTTA, P. J., and COHALAN, J., concur with LATHAM, J.; BENJAMIN, J., dissents and votes to reverse and to grant judgment in favor of defendant, with an opinion, in which MUNDER, J., concurs.


LATHAM, J.

In this action to enjoin the operation of a religious school on property subject to a private residential use covenant, the issue is whether there is a violation of the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom by the enforcement of the covenant against the defendant, which purchased with knowledge of the covenant and of the plaintiffs' intention to enforce it.

In 1908, a covenant was...

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