RICHARDS v. KASKEL


32 N.Y.2d 524 (1973)

Ethel Richards et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants, v. Doris Kaskel et al., as Executors of Alfred L. Kaskel, Deceased, et al., Respondents, and Albert A. Walsh, Individually and as Administrator of the Housing and Development Administration, et Ano., Defendants. Larry Berman, Respondent, v. Joseph Smith et al., Appellants. Norman Le Beau, Respondent, v. Rose Katz et al., Appellants. Julio Tangeloff et al., Respondents, v. Eugene F. Sitterly, Appellant. Dorothy Crasto, Respondent, v. Helen Marks, Appellant. Ligia Trujillo, Respondent, v. Frank Szilvassy et al., Appellants. Seymour Goldstein et al., Respondents, v. Irene De Regis, Appellant. Murray Breslow et al., Respondents, v. Alan Morrill et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman A. Gray, Robert Sugerman and Martin M. Berger for appellants.

Donald Zimmerman, Leon Finley and Donald Snider for Doris Kaskel and others, respondents.

Joseph Gaier and Martin A. Luster for Norman Le Beau and others, respondents.

Reginald Leo Duff in person, amicus curiae.

Howard C. Amron for 360 East 72nd Street Owners, Incorporated, respondent.

Leon Brickman for Dorothy Crasto and others, respondents.

Judges BURKE, BREITEL, JASEN, GABRIELLI and JONES concur; Judge WACHTLER taking no part.


Chief Judge FULD.

The plaintiffs-appellants are 124 tenants in an apartment building located at 360 East 72nd Street in Manhattan who refused to purchase co-operative interests in their apartments under a plan for the conversion of the building to co-operative ownership. They brought this action, individually and on behalf of all other tenants in the building similarly situated, for a declaratory judgment that...

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