Grant-Morris Management Corp. v. Weaver

An apartment was occupied on March 1, 1950 by a tenant and his wife. Then their daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild moved in. Petitioner applied for an increase *450pursuant to section 4 (sub. 4, par. [a], cl. [9]) of the State Residential Rent Law (L. 1946, ch. 274, as amd.). This section provides for an increase where the number of tenants is increased by persons ‘ ‘ not members of the immediate family of the tenant ” (L. 1955, ch. 685). There is complete agreement as to what the quoted words mean. They include only a son, daughter, father, mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law. The…