MATTER OF DANIMAN v. BD. OF EDUC. OF CITY OF N. Y.


306 N.Y. 532 (1954)

In the Matter of Mary I. Daniman et al., Appellants, v. Board of Education of the City of New York, Respondent. In the Matter of Vera Shlakman et al., Appellants, v. Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 22, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paxton Blair and Harold I. Cammer for Mary I. Daniman and others, appellants.

Ephraim S. London and Sherman P. Kimball for Harry Slochower, appellant.

Denis M. Hurley, Corporation Counsel (Michael A. Castaldi, Seymour B. Quel, Helen R. Cassidy, Bernard Friedlander and Barbara H. Carroll of counsel), for respondents.

Robert M. Benjamin and Frank E. Karelsen for Public Education Association, amicus curiaelig;, in support of appellants' position.

LEWIS, Ch. J., FROESSEL and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., concur with CONWAY, J.; DESMOND, J., dissents in opinion in which DYE and FULD, JJ., concur.


CONWAY, J.

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