Lucot, Inc. v. Gabel

This is an article 78 proceeding to review the denial of petitioner’s protest challenging the order of the District Bent Director voiding rent increases previously granted upon the ground that such increases had been obtained, in part, by the landlord’s fraudulent action in submitting grossly exaggerated bills for kitchen cabinet equipment.

Petitioner urges that the annulment of the rent increases allowed for the installation of equipment, other than the kitchen cabinets, and for the execution of a voluntary lease agreement is illegal, arbitrary, without basis in law or fact, and constitutes…