Samara v. City of New York

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

This suit concerns a townhouse, valued at approximately one million dollars, located on the upper East side of Manhattan. This townhouse was left in trust to the Samara sisters, the plaintiffs herein, by their father.1 At the time of the critical events in question, this trust was managed by Burton A. Schenley, an attorney, who had been appointed trustee by Order of the Supreme Court of New York County on November 29,1962.2 The City foreclosed on the townhouse for failure to pay outstanding taxes of thirty-six thousand dollars, and now claims…