MATTER OF LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO. v. HORN


17 N.Y.2d 652 (1966)

In the Matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Appellant, v. Leonard L. Horn et al., Constituting the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Huntington, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 24, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Walsh, Jr., Edward M. Barrett, Ira L. Freilicher, David L. Sohn and Jackson A. Dykman for appellant.

Frank J. Mack, Town Attorney, for respondents.

John A. Farrell and James M. Baisley for New York State Electric & Gas Corporation, amicus curiae.

Morrell S. Lockhart, Theodore J. Carlson and M. Wade Kimsey for Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, amicus curiae.

Anthony Romano for Justine L. Lambert, amicus curiae.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges FULD, BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN and KEATING. Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents in the following opinion.


Order affirmed, with costs, upon the opinion of Justice MUNDER, at the Supreme Court, County of Suffolk, dated July 23, 1964 (49 Misc.2d 717).

VAN VOORHIS, J. (dissenting).

This app eal concerns expertise, but the question is whose expertise, expertise regarding what and who are the people to whom the experts owe responsibility? The expertise of the Public Service Commission is well known. Its jurisdiction...

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