United States v. 68,716 Square Feet of Land in New York

MEDINA, District Judge.

The controversy presented by the Government’s petition for a declaratory judgment and the cross motion of the City of New York to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim for relief, centers upon the legality of the action of the City authorities in determining on January 25, 1944 that the new hospital of the Lebanon Hospital Association of the City of New York on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx was no longer tax exempt by reason of its seizure by the Government in the above entitled condemnation proceeding. The hospital was taken over on July…