Jersey City Management v. Garcia

The opinion of the court was delivered by

CONLEY, J.A.D.

Defendant is a long term tenant of plaintiff in its federally subsidized low income housing project in Jersey City. Before plaintiffs summary dispossess proceeding against her, defendant had had a cat for eleven years and a dog for two years. During this time period and before she obtained the dog, defendant moved from one of plaintiffs units to another. At the time of the trial on *545the dispossess complaint, defendant conceded her lease contained a “no-pet” provision, but contended that her particular circumstances rendered application of…