Recknagel v. Finkelstein

Petitioner seeks to review the refusal of the respondents, constituting the temporary city housing rent coin-mission of , the city of New York, to issue a certificaté of eviction and to direct the issuance of such a certificate. The petitioner, the owner of a two-family house, desiring to discontinue the janitorial and other services rendered to the tenant and the annoyance and expense of compulsory renting, applied to the rent commission for a certificate to withdraw the apartment from the rental market. The refusal of the respondents to issue the certificate is predicated on the theory that…