MTR. OF LAKE PLACID CLUB v. ABRAMS


6 A.D.2d 469 (1958)

In the Matter of Lake Placid Club, Inc., Respondent, v. Charles Abrams, Individually and as Chairman of The New York State Commission against Discrimination, et al., Appellants

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

November 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Spitz and Solomon J. Heifetz for Charles Abrams, individually and as Chairman of the New York State Commission against Discrimination, appellant.

Sol Rabkin, Paul Hartman and Arnold Forster for Blanche I. Lubow, appellant.

Morris, Dillon & Mac Harg (Ernest B. Morris of counsel), for respondent.

BERGAN, GIBSON, HERLIHY and REYNOLDS, JJ., concur.


FOSTER, P. J.

By statute discrimination based on race, color, creed or national origin is forbidden in this State in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement. Private clubs are excepted from the ban of the statute (Executive Law, §§ 292, 296). A commission has been set up to enforce the provisions of the statute and such commission is empowered to establish its own rules of practice. This...

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