Belotti v. McGoldrick

Special Term revoked the certificate of eviction granted landlords by the State Bent Administrator. Landlords and the State Bent Administrator appeal.

Landlords own a five-story structure, consisting of a store, a four and one-half room first-floor apartment, and fifteen rooms above. Tenant occupies the apartment and operates the fifteen rooms as a rooming house. It is the apartment occupied as a residence by the tenant that landlords seek to obtain for their own use, upon a showing of immediate and compelling necessity based upon a recent increase in the family.

Under section 55 of the Bent…