MATTER OF HUTCHINS v. MCGOLDRICK


307 N.Y. 78 (1954)

In the Matter of Doris Hutchins, Respondent, v. Joseph D. McGoldrick, as State Rent Administrator, Appellant. In the Matter of Philip W. Ransom, Appellant, v. Joseph D. McGoldrick, as State Rent Administrator, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 20, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emory Gardiner and Robert H. Schaffer for appellant in first above-entitled proceeding.

James R. Ulsh for appellant in second above-entitled proceeding.

S. Gerald Duckor and Charles L. Kellar for respondent in first above-entitled proceeding.

Emory Gardiner and Robert H. Schaffer for respondent in second above-entitled proceeding.

As to the Ransom appeal: DESMOND, DYE, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ., concur with LEWIS, Ch. J.; CONWAY, J., dissents in opinion in which VAN VOORHIS, J., concurs.


LEWIS, Ch. J.

The double caption which prefaces this opinion entitles two rent law cases which were argued together and present the following question: Were conversions made between February 1, 1947, and May 1, 1950 — resulting in additional housing accommodations — decontrolled by the State Residential Rent Law (L. 1946, ch. 274, as amd. by L. 1950, ch. 250).

In the first proceeding captioned above &...

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