Payne v. Sugarman

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul a determination of respondent State Commissioner, dated December 7, 1971 and made after a statutory fair hearing, which affirmed a decision of respondent City Commissioner to terminate public assistance benefits to petitioner’s children on the ground that petitioner had failed to comply with section 360 of the Social Services Law in that she refused to execute a bond and mortgage on certain real property to the respondent City Department of Social Services. Application granted; determinations of both respondents annulled, on the law, without…