Burns v. Toia

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered December 16, 1977, unanimously reversed, on the law, and vacated, the underlying determination annulled, without costs and without disbursements, and the matter remanded to respondents commissioners of the State and city Departments of Social Services for a new hearing as hereinafter set forth. Furniture and clothing of petitioner-appellant were destroyed by fire, and this has not been disputed. While disaster of this sort is not a key to the public treasury, an inquiry into the basic needs of this family should not take the form of a fencing…