MATTER OF PARK E. CORP. v. WHALEN


43 N.Y.2d 735 (1977)

In the Matter of Park East Corporation et al., Respondents, and Park East Hospital et al., Intervenors-Respondents, v. Robert P. Whalen, as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Robert S. Hammer and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for appellant.

Robert R. MacDonnell and Loren G. Lavine for intervenors-respondents.

Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE.


Order reversed, with costs, and the matter remitted to the Appellate Division, First Department, with directions to dismiss the proceeding as moot. It is undisputed that the hospitals involved have been closed, the mortgages on their premises have been foreclosed and the premises sold, and that the operating corporations are in bankruptcy. The effect of our disposition is not only to vacate the determinations heretofore made, but "to erase the whole case from the books" ...

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