MATTER OF TURNER v. FRANCO


237 A.D.2d 225 (1997)

655 N.Y.S.2d 935

In the Matter of Mary Ann Turner, Petitioner, v. Ruben Franco, as Chair of The New York City Housing Authority, et al., Respondents

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

March 27, 1997


Substantial evidence supports respondent's findings. However, the penalty of dismissal shocks our sense of fairness, inasmuch as petitioner, who had lived in the apartment for approximately 13 years at the time of the hearing, has been a long-time patient at a psychiatric hospital under treatment for long-term chronic schizophrenia, paranoid type, for which she takes two medications, and which, according to her psychiatrist, renders her delusional and unable to live in a...

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