Judson v. Frankel

This complaint, now challenged as insufficient in law, alleges that plaintiffs are statutory tenants residing in individual apartments at 1185 Park Avenue in the borough of Manhattan. On behalf of a “ Protective Committee ” of tenants, they are opposing the inauguration of a so-called co-operative plan proposed by defendants for that apartment house, pursuant, to which tenants may be evicted unless they agree to purchase their several apartments on a co-operative basis. Defendants contend that they have acted under the authority of Subdivision 3 of section 55 of the Rent and Eviction…