Romanow v. City Rent & Rehabilitation Administration

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered September 12, 1967 in New York County, which granted a motion by the landlord for an order in an article 78 proceeding granting various allowances denied by the Rent Administration in the landlord’s request for a fair return rent increase.

In the course of auditing petitioner-landlord’s income and expenses in a “fair return” proceeding, the Rent Administrator disallowed, as an operating expense, the legal fee charged by the lawyer-husband of the landlord for the institution of this proceeding. This was done in accordance with…