Hughes v. Lenox Hill Hospital

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Paula J. Omansky, J.), entered April 27, 2000, which granted defendant’s motion to confirm the report of the Special Referee and entitled defendant to recover from plaintiff Hughes use and occupancy, attorneys’ fees, interest, and costs and disbursements, in the total amount of $102,102.05, unanimously modified, on the law, to provide that plaintiff is liable only in his capacity as executor of the estate of Bettina Black, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Inasmuch as the rent stabilization laws were enacted to “ ‘prevent…