In re Siebert

Lazer, J. P.,

dissents and votes to reverse the order and to remand the proceedings to Special Term for a new hearing, with the following memorandum: I agree with my colleagues that the Superintendent’s reasons for taking possession of the Citizens Savings and Loan Association of New York and merging it with the Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association seem absolutely valid. Nevertheless, despite the utterly inept fashion in which Citizens sought a continuance after the hearing commenced on February 13, 1979, and bearing in mind that its sudden request for such relief constituted a gross…