Monk v. Finkelstein

The Park Royal, Inc., owner of the hotel premises here in question, appeals from a Special Term order annulling an order of the temporary city housing rent commission which on the ground of hardship had granted the hotel an increase in rents. The commission itself does not appeal but files a brief in which it does not oppose affirmance. In this case, too, no issue whatever is raised as to the commission’s complete jurisdiction.

As pointed out in Special Term’s opinion and in effect admitted by the commission, fixation in this ease of the value of the property to determine whether the owner…